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Lockout!!!

"I feel like a couple years should be guaranteed, but not all the money should be guaranteed. That's one thing we can't do like football. People have to come out and play. There are a lot of people fighting to be in the NBA. Not a lot of people get the opportunity; there are 400, 500 people that actually play during the season. There are thousands on top of thousands fighting trying to get in the NBA, and I feel like it's up to the ones who are there to keep their spot."

-NBA Rookie Chris Singleton

Anyone else surprised he suggested that contracts should not be 100% guaranteed?

https://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/33062/locked-out-rookie-on-the-record
 
AlaskanAssassin said:
"I feel like a couple years should be guaranteed, but not all the money should be guaranteed. That's one thing we can't do like football. People have to come out and play. There are a lot of people fighting to be in the NBA. Not a lot of people get the opportunity; there are 400, 500 people that actually play during the season. There are thousands on top of thousands fighting trying to get in the NBA, and I feel like it's up to the ones who are there to keep their spot."

-NBA Rookie Chris Singleton

Anyone else surprised he suggested that contracts should not be 100% guaranteed?

https://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/33062/locked-out-rookie-on-the-record
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Maybe he is just trying to endear himself to the fans of his new team?
 
If stupidity hurt, the whole world would be howling in pain. David West would apparently have to be on morphine.

What makes this lockout different from the one 13 years ago is that the rise of mass media has made people dumber, yet it has also convinced them they are smarter. Thanks to the internet, everyone has now become an expert on everything. You google "NBA CBA," read an article written by a hack at ESPN or Yahoo about it(not one of those guys has a background in labour law, as far as I know) and suddenly, you become competent enough to discuss finer points of the BRI split with people who think about that stuff for a living.

It is no coincidence that the loudest players in this whole imbroglio are the ones with least education. Garnett, Kobe, LeBron...guys with high school diplomas. Read three tweets and one wikipedia page about the lockout and they are suddenly equal to the actual professionals hired by the union to negotiate. I'm in a union. I'm a teacher. Do you think I barge into negotiation meetings? No, because I'm a f*cking teacher. The reason the union takes a portion of my paycheque every month is so they can hire lawyers who know much more about this than I do. I teach kids. They negotiate my wages. I'm not going to get involved in the negotiations any more than they are going to come teach my class. I trust that they are doing their best because we pay them. How much more can I do than that?
 
I hope the power play works. But my guess is the best it produces is 51. It would be nice if the contingent of players who see 51 as the practical victory would have their own conference call and take back control of their own self interest rather than following superstars tilting at windmills.
 
billyshelby said:
I hope the power play works. But my guess is the best it produces is 51. It would be nice if the contingent of players who see 51 as the practical victory would have their own conference call and take back control of their own self interest rather than following superstars tilting at windmills.
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.....the players are NOT getting 51! Throw that completely out of your mind! They have a better chance of getting 45 than 51!
 
Let's hope the decertification process goes through. Then the guys like DumbWade, LeClueless and Crybaby can try to form their own league and take the power agents with them. The rest can come to their senses, start a new union and the NBA can get back to business.
 
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