Sounds like my last visit to the proctologist.
Lockout!!!
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Sounds like my last visit to the proctologist.
Precisely.
We are basketball junkies Nate. We are going to be in trouble if we just lost the season.
carolinajazz
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....excellent observation! In fact, I would be in favor of giving those ridiculous NBA salaries to the garbage men and school teachers who really deserve it!
carolinajazz
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....sounds like more "jailhouse tats" are forth coming?
I'm getting more and more sad at how this is playing out. I WANT MY JAZZ BASKETBALL! It makes me want to get a life size effigy of carolinajazz, tat it up, punch it in the face, book it into county jail so the inmates can have their way with it, then burn it and burn the ashes.
mellow
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NBA reaction to NBAPU decertification: NBA COULD VOID EXISTING CONTRACTS.
https://eye-on-basketball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/22748484/33304567
This would be the worst news yet for Jazz fanz. Cause if the existing contracts are gone it won't matter if the players or the owners win the labor battle, Jazz will lose. Jazz would have to start over with a young unproven coaching staff trying to attract free agents to come. It would take years to recover.
https://eye-on-basketball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/22748484/33304567
This would be the worst news yet for Jazz fanz. Cause if the existing contracts are gone it won't matter if the players or the owners win the labor battle, Jazz will lose. Jazz would have to start over with a young unproven coaching staff trying to attract free agents to come. It would take years to recover.
I would definitely be tuning out at that point.
I really doubt it is going to go down to the worst possible scenario like that. I'm sure each side is just trying to bluff as much as possible. For instance, the owners offered a 50% deal, but said if they didn't accept it they would go down to 47%. Why would they do that? Why just not offer the 47% right off the bat if you are through negotiating? Probably to scare the players into taking a bad deal and void the threat of decertification.
The players respond by saying we are going to decertify, to try and scare the owners into making a better deal.
Owners say respond with "If you try this **** it's is only going to get worse for y'all!". (Wouldn't they want this though if that was true? It appears to me most owners are perfectly fine sitting out the entire season if it means a more favorable deal for the next 10 years.)
So basically it seems to me it will just be a giant pissing match to see who caves first. I doubt the process of decertification will see itself out (though it could, both sides seem very stubborn). Neither side wants to go through this much trouble because I don't think either side is certain the outcome will favor them.
The players respond by saying we are going to decertify, to try and scare the owners into making a better deal.
Owners say respond with "If you try this **** it's is only going to get worse for y'all!". (Wouldn't they want this though if that was true? It appears to me most owners are perfectly fine sitting out the entire season if it means a more favorable deal for the next 10 years.)
So basically it seems to me it will just be a giant pissing match to see who caves first. I doubt the process of decertification will see itself out (though it could, both sides seem very stubborn). Neither side wants to go through this much trouble because I don't think either side is certain the outcome will favor them.
margodydek
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I hate this argument. Yes, it's a lockout, not a strike, but it's not as if the owners have shut the doors, and sat in a cone of silence unwilling to engage the players. They have given them multiple offers and the players have CHOSE to not accept them and go back to work. It would be the same thing as if my boss came to me and said, sorry, but in order for you to work here we're going to have change things up. If you are not OK with the changes, you are free to look for work somewhere else.
margodydek
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I agree with Stern when he said that this was nothing more than a negotiating tactic (albeit ill-timed). Players don't want this thing to go to court anymore than the owners do. It was the only tactic they could use to swing back at the owners. It very well could slow down this process to a grinding halt, but there's also a chance that it could speed it up as well. Time will tell.
freakazoid
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https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_...w-wojnarowski_nba_labor_players_owners_111511
I think this clearly means the players have no intention of having this play out in the courts. They're going all in on assuming the owners don't really want to miss the season. I have mixed feelings. I'm so fed up with this bull **** that part of me wants to see this blow up in their face.