Gyp Rosetti
Banned
What in the hell?
Not two days ago you stated in no uncertain terms that you thought the players were negotiating in bad faith.
You also apparently totally missed the second sentence where I said owners were probably closer to the bad faith line (and perhaps over it) when they were threatening that their offers would get worse as time went on rather than better. The idea that you and I were saying the same thing, that no one has negotiated in bad faith, is doubly wrong because you didn't say that and I didn't say that. I think there was probably a legitimate case for bad faith negotiations on the part of the owners during an earlier period of the process.
You've been getting killed in this thread by GVC and IGS because you apparently either don't understand or refuse to conceptualize that that someone can actually look at the total level of BRI ($3.817 billion in 2010-2011) and make estimates as to how changes in share affect the total $300 million operating deficit alleged by the NBA owners, retreating instead to some idea that no one can ever make fairly educated guesses as to the magnitude of the concessions by one side.
It doesn't take a genius to see that if we move from a 57% player share of BRI to a 50% share of BRI that the owners are netting approximately $267 million on the transaction. Nor does it take a genius to understand why cost-structures and profit margins of other sports leagues, especially those that share many of the same markets, are relevant to determining the potential profitability of the league on a going-forward basis. You've been in weird fundamental denial of these things as whole ideas and spicing up your posts with a weirdly aggressive tone, including one post reading only "**** you." That's why I said you're getting tooled around. It makes you look like the guy who doesn't understand and is getting unduly hostile towards those who are discussing the issue in non-abstract terms.
**** you.
You have to know I'm kidding.