Lockout!!!

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Jordan is just mad he is a terrible owner and evaluator of talent (Adam Morrison lol).

 

[carolinajazz]

Wait, NFL players don't have tattoos? This is news to me.

...they've got'um but they aren't as easily visible up under all that equipment! Besides, we ain't talkin about the NFL...we beez talkin about the NBA! Now it's true, NFL players are even dumber than NBA players...but since they get there brains rattled every single play, I tend to cut them more slack! But not much more! After all, anyone that consistantly lines up OFFSIDES....can't really be worth millions of dollars a year, can he???

 

[freakazoid]

A source tells Alan Hahn that Jordan isn't just leveraging against players, but big market owners as well. The thinking is that small market owners will be more willing to make a deal with the players if greater revenue sharing is involved.

Adrian Wojnarowski writes Saturday's gathering of NBA owners will deal as much with their own infighting on revenue sharing at it will with the battle against the players on system issues and BRI.

https://basketball.realgm.com/wiret...ainst_Big_Markets_For_Greater_Revenue_Sharing

 

[toccoto]

Here is David West's brilliant take on the BRI situation:

https://twitter.com/#!/D_West30/statu...07809931272192

D_West30 David West
We have 100 dollars to split. U get 50 I get 50...U split your 50 between 30 guys...I split my 50 with 450 guys. Think about it...
7 hours ago

Now you just can't argue with that kind of logic. The majority of fans has to be siding with the players when they hear gems like this.

How about this one: I'm going to put all of my money into buying a hotdog stand. I will let the 12 of you run it. I will buy all the hotdogs, maintain the shop, do all of the advertising. You just sell. If it fails, you can guys can walk away and find something else to do with no harm done to the money you've made. But if it succeeds, you get more of the money made than I do.

That seem fair?

 

[freakazoid]

2. How likely is it that the players would prevail in an antitrust litigation?

Not likely.

In terms of its legal arguments, the NBA may be poised to offer more persuasive reasoning for the legality of its lockout than the NFL could muster for its own lockout. One key factor in a legal analysis of whether a lockout should be enjoined is the irreparable harm to the locked out employees. Unlike NFL players, who had nowhere else to play professional football during the lockout and some of whom would have never returned to the NFL had the 2011 season been canceled, some NBA players have already signed lucrative contracts with teams in foreign basketball leagues. The NBA can maintain that if players can sign to play abroad, then a lockout will not cause their professional basketball careers irreparable harm (or at least will cause much less harm than NFL players suffered/would have suffered).

https://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2.../nba.labor.decertify/index.html#ixzz1clkR5tVP

 

[carolinajazz]

Since when has there been an NBA player more "thuggish" than Pacman Jones?

Pacman is a puke! THe dregs of society! He's worse than Randy Moss and Terrell Owens put together! He's worse than Dennis Rodman.....and that's saying something!

 

[carolinajazz]

https://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2.../nba.labor.decertify/index.html#ixzz1clkR5tVP

"Unlike NFL players, who had nowhere else to play professional football during the lockout and some of whom would have never returned to the NFL had the 2011 season been canceled, some NBA players have already signed lucrative contracts with teams in foreign basketball leagues. The NBA can maintain that if players can sign to play abroad, then a lockout will not cause their professional basketball careers irreparable harm (or at least will cause much less harm than NFL players suffered/would have suffered)."

...well, that settles it! With absolutely no chance of winning in court....the players have to sign and sign right now! I'm sorry to say we will probably be seeing NBA basketball by Jan. 1st. They can't possibly hold out any longer, can they? Are they THAT stupid??? They've got to sign!

 

[carolinajazz]

Here is David West's brilliant take on the BRI situation:

https://twitter.com/#!/D_West30/statu...07809931272192

D_West30 David West
We have 100 dollars to split. U get 50 I get 50...U split your 50 between 30 guys...I split my 50 with 450 guys. Think about it...
7 hours ago



How about this one: I'm going to put all of my money into buying a hotdog stand. I will let the 12 of you run it. I will buy all the hotdogs, maintain the shop, do all of the advertising. You just sell. If it fails, you can guys can walk away and find something else to do with no harm done to the money you've made. But if it succeeds, you get more of the money made than I do.

That seem fair?

....how many jailhouse tats does West have, anyway??? 1,000 or so?

 

[idiot]

How about this one: I'm going to put all of my money into buying a hotdog stand. I will let the 12 of you run it. I will buy all the hotdogs, maintain the shop, do all of the advertising. You just sell. If it fails, you can guys can walk away and find something else to do with no harm done to the money you've made. But if it succeeds, you get more of the money made than I do.

That seem fair?

Yep, just as illogical as David West's quote.

 

[Jazz4ever]

...it's about respect, alright!....and the owners are going to FORCE these pathetic looking thugs to respect there elders! NBA players, for the most part, are the low sink of debauchery by the way they look, act and play basketball. They are the dregs of professional athletes! And they've been getting away with it and been paid handsomely for it for years! The party's over pal!

You mean respect guys like Dan Gilbert who helped run the country into a depression with his corrupt loan business? Or do you mean the monopolist Paul Allen who practiced the same shady business practices in Portland that he did with Microsoft. Perhaps you meant the blatant racist Donal Sterling of the Clippers who....oh wait, now I see why they're your heroes.

 

[carolinajazz]

You mean respect guys like Dan Gilbert who helped run the country into a depression with his corrupt loan business? Or do you mean the monopolist Paul Allen who practiced the same shady business practices in Portland that he did with Microsoft. Perhaps you meant the blatant racist Donal Sterling of the Clippers who....oh wait, now I see why they're your heroes.

...well, there pathetic pukes, too!

 

[carolinajazz]

If I were the players....I'd be scared stiff to take this thing to court! Not only is the deck stacked against them....but then they'd have THIS to deal with as well! (Line from the movie "My Cousin Vinny!")

"When you come into my court looking like you do, you not only insult me, but you insult the integrity of this court."

So even though they'd be represented by well-dressed lawyers....the Judge knows from watching NBA games that those represented by the lawyers have insulted the integrity of his court!