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David Stern's Master Plan

Either way hopefully this helps end the lockout. Many are saying that owners will not want their players playing overseas, so they will try to come to an agreement quicker. What it shows me, is that star players are willing to play for 5 million dollars a year.
 
I'd say we're looking at human nature in action. Stern is using the lockout to stir more interest in the NBA overseas, the players are as much performers (as in ACTORS, who generally crave an audience) as athletes, and the players will play for whatever they can get from anyone willing to pay, 'cause it's way more than they'd get for doin' anything else.
I've said it before, it's the SPONSORS and advertisors who drive sports these days. If they weren't willing to foot the bill that pays for those fat TV contracts, salaries and prices would drop like a rock...
 
So, in your theory, David Stern created a multi-level conspiracy spanning the past decade, forging documents to show financial losses, and brainwashing owners to join him. Then after the pieces fell into place, he sat back and watched his stars.... advertising?
 
Here's a classic assessment of the lockout and how it could be solved! I especially thought this paragraph was very incite full!

"Issue No. 5: Nobody is putting a gun to the owners' heads and telling them to overpay players.

This is the no. 1 argument from every agent and Players Association head, none of whom seem to care that they sound like the parent of an obese child saying, "It's not my fault the boy is fat, I'm not forcing him to eat." Let's skip this one because the lack of accountability is disgusting.

What Dave would tell the owners: "We can't win here. If you made a conscious commitment to collectively rein in spending, that would be collusion. When you're left to your own devices, more times than not, you'll screw up. My only idea: Maybe any NBA franchise that allows an ex-player, a coach, a former scout, or basically anyone without genuine business and/or legal training to negotiate with some of the smartest legal/business minds in the entire world should be fined $10 million by the commissioner's office. Do you realize that agents laugh about this behind closed doors? They can't believe they were allowed to negotiate deals with the likes of Mike Dunleavy, Joe Dumars, Kevin McHale, David Kahn, Isiah Thomas, Danny Ferry and the Paxson brothers over the years. It makes them giggle and giggle. Maybe we DO deserve to lose $340 million every year."

https://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/...uled-nba-world
 
PKM said:
Shows me they're whores.
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NBA players are worse then then whores, at least they appreciate the money they get. NBA players complain about the millions they are making now. Didn't Spreewell once pose the question how am I suppose to feed my family on 14million a year.
 
Thee jazz fan said:
NBA players are worse then then whores, at least they appreciate the money they get. NBA players complain about the millions they are making now. Didn't Spreewell once pose the question how am I suppose to feed my family on 14million a year.
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So what your saying is what the NBA players are missing is a strong pimp hand?

for a video break down analysis here is a picture of the current way of doing things:

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Here is what I believe he's saying it needs to become.

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I recommend reading the entire article that CarolinaJazz Quoted from.

The premise of this thread is entertaining. I have no doubt that Stern is now thinking of the ways he can use the players going oversees to spread the NBA brand, or to spin it that way. But I strongly disagree that it was calculated or planned on his part. Stern is not a visionary, he does not anticipate or plan for future possibilities. He is not revolutionary, he simply copied forward what others had started.

David Stern is reactionary and an opportunist, but even in his opportunism he plays it safe with little forethought. He has been successful by seeing what works and replicating it. He inherited Bird vs Magic, and got Michael Jordan as a gift. He sold expansion franchises based on the popularity of Michael Jordan.

He has created the current mess, didn't see it coming, and did nothing to head it off. It appears that he has lost control of the players and the owners and now he cannot buy his way out of his mess with promises of endless revenue as he has in the past. I have said before that I believe Sterns biography will read like a tragedy where he is the tragic hero--
 
mellow said:
I recommend reading the entire article that CarolinaJazz Quoted from.

The premise of this thread is entertaining. I have no doubt that Stern is now thinking of the ways he can use the players going oversees to spread the NBA brand, or to spin it that way. But I strongly disagree that it was calculated or planned on his part. Stern is not a visionary, he does not anticipate or plan for future possibilities. He is not revolutionary, he simply copied forward what others had started.

David Stern is reactionary and an opportunist, but even in his opportunism he plays it safe with little forethought. He has been successful by seeing what works and replicating it. He inherited Bird vs Magic, and got Michael Jordan as a gift. He sold expansion franchises based on the popularity of Michael Jordan.

He has created the current mess, didn't see it coming, and did nothing to head it off. It appears that he has lost control of the players and the owners and now he cannot buy his way out of his mess with promises of endless revenue as he has in the past. I have said before that I believe Sterns biography will read like a tragedy where he is the tragic hero--
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Really? You're gonna blame Stern for Atlanta paying 20 million per year for Joe Johnson?

Or Utah agreeing to pay AK $17 million plus in his last year? Hardly.

Stern's arrival in the league ushered in an explosion of NBA's popularity, both in the U.S. and abroad. While the level of his contribution is up to debate, it is the owners and management who have gotten themselves into this mess, bidding up contracts and not negotiating non-guaranteed contract years for injured players (and those who are dogging it).
 
Agreed, 'mellow', Stern is an opportunist, and you can bet he will use this bit of free advertising (to the NBA) to his advantage. At this juncture, we ALL need more entertainment!
As I mentioned in my 2nd post, it's the advertising $$$ that make these insane amounts of $$$ available for NBA owners to spend. True, the owners don't HAVE to spend as they do, BUT, if they want to be competitive with those owners willing to spend it, over time they will succumb to temptation and do so too. And the owners are expecting to make money, not necessarily in a year or two, but over the long haul. And just being an owner of a sports franchise also serves as an advertisement for an owner in his other enterprises. And it's no doubt an ego booster too.
The players also know this pot o' gold is there, so eventually think they deserve more. And then there's players agents always in the picture to feed their clients' egos...
 
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