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Lockout!!!

That was funny.

I'm going to take a queue from the business men and athletes we see in the media and say hey I gotta get what I can, what about me, what can I get from this cause that's all I care about.
Cause it was the only reason I was leaning towards the owners locking out the players and it's getting more and more obvious once each side "gets theirs" the only people left out of "getting theirs" will be the fans of small market teams.

Hey Stern do us a favor and retire or bring in the next in line for your job to help negotiate, not that it would change things but just so I have an idea who to dislike next.
 
NBA players: Most overpaid, biggest "eyesores", underachieving, repulsive athletes in professional sports. Owners aren't going to "reward" them for that!!! Stern is doing what needs to be done!
 
The NBA's players are out of moves, like Jonathan Poe, the chess prodigy who ultimately had to give in to Josh Waitzkin, an even better prodigy, who saw the end of their match 12 moves before Poe did in "Searching For Bobby Fischer". In similar ways this NBA lockout has been predestined, the owners knowing exactly what they were going to get, and how, and when, and the union, full of very smart and good chess players itself, is trying desperately to avoid where it is now, 12 moves from oblivion, with nothing it can do about it.

The union must take the deal now. For it will take a far worse deal a month from now, or later, and lose half a billion or more in the process.

No NLRB ruling nor decertification nor Solidarity Forever chant is going to change that now. The NBA's owners are not looking for a decision; they want a knockout, and they're going to get it. They will blow up the season if they don't like the deal, and they're going to, unless the union folds its 2-3 hand with the flop coming, calls it a day, gets this season started by mid-December and lives to fight again. It is out of moves.
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https://www.nba.com/2011/news/featu...lockout-next-steps/index.html?ls=iref:nbahpt1
 
...."because now that a month of the season is officially gone, and $800 million is down the tubes, there's no reason for the league to stay at 50-50, and it won't.

The players aren't going to get 52, or 51, or 50.5, or 50.000001, and if they hold out for those numbers, they're not going to have a season. You'd have to be crazy not to see that now, so it's this for the players: take the deal this week or next, or lose the season. If they are willing to die on principle, they wouldn't be the first. But they will die, in the metaphorical sense."

"But this isn't about fair. This is about the NBA putting its house back in order -- naked, real-world realpolitik. If you understand nothing else about these negotitations, understand this: this isn't just about money, at least not totally; this is about re-establishing who's in charge.....the predominately conservative, fundamentally sound owners....or the tattooed, hip-hop punks!"

(Ok....I fudged that last line a little....but if you have beers with some of those owners, they'd probably say something similar, right?!!!)
 
Mickey Arison fined 500K for some disparaging remarks against small market owners. Looks like there is dissension among the owners as well. Stern is going to be fighting a three way war here real soon.
 
Jazz4ever said:
Mickey Arison fined 500K for some disparaging remarks against small market owners. Looks like there is dissension among the owners as well. Stern is going to be fighting a three way war here real soon.
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...owners are united and prepared to cancel the whole season! Not going to cave in one bit to the punks!
 
carolinajazz said:
...owners are united and prepared to cancel the whole season! Not going to cave in one bit to the punks!
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We'll see. The Heat were one of the teams that lost money last year and Mickey Arison was still willing to eat a massive fine to let the world know a few small market teams are holding up the process. But keep covering your ears to the real world...lalalalalala
 
I'm curious if the mods plan on keeping this thread around for when the NBA comes back in case anyone still wants to hangout in here when the Jazz are an unbearable trainwreck because Corbin is an inexperienced basket case who is holding Favors and Hayward back? Only under those circumstances though.
 
chitownjazz said:
I'm curious if the mods plan on keeping this thread around for when the NBA comes back in case anyone still wants to hangout in here when the Jazz are an unbearable trainwreck because Corbin is an inexperienced basket case who is holding Favors and Hayward back? Only under those circumstances though.
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...this thread will be around for a whole year! No need to worry about that. Unless the brain dead Players union all of a sudden gets some smarts.
 
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