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That's one sport I won't miss.
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The players run every league Padre. Even the NFL. Very few coaches can survive a tiff with star players
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i hope it ceases to exist. actually, i care too little for one outcome over the other. but i do think it'd be pretty neat seeing 6'9" dudes handing me my value meal. i wont even have to unbuckle my seatbelt to reach for it. now THATS service.
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Brown "retired" because of Gerald Henderson and a couple of others thought "he is to old school", Brown managed to get them into the playoffs in 09-10, gone by midseason 2011, Bobcats promise to be atrocious this season but at least the players like the coach...
That is the sort of thing that I don't care for about the NBA, Bobcats have been turrible, drafted poorly, Coach manages to get some results and is asked to resign? That makes -0- sense. -
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A lockout of any sport is not good for the countless people (not talking about players) who rely on it to make a living... we need the NBA and NFL not to miss any games.
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The NBA is the second most popular league in the US of A. it is the second most popular sport in the world.
It is rather important that there is a season next year.Stitches likes this. -
Btw, it's only important that they play for those that are interested in that sport. -
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I would also like to see the official country count for the NBA finals compared to the Super Bowl.
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There are leagues all over the world and in China, it is the national sport. Games in China get massive audiences.
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At this point, I wonder why, if you despise basketball and the NBA so much, you're devoting this much time and energy to a thread about the NBA. -
Kickers can run up and down a court for 40+ minutes?
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Easy to play BBall, hoop, ball, see easy, organized football requires loads of equipment, which leaves me a bit ambivalent about some things.
Anywho, another problem the NBA faces this time over the last lockout is there are new owners who paid fortunes for their teams, in 1998-99 most owners had held their properties for long enough that a 12 million dollar investment in the 80's was worth 5x that in 1999 making them more agreeable to looking at the players demands for shares of revenues as "house money", the new owners (12 0r 16 of them since 1999) have a very different view.
To make matters worse, if BSPN is to be believed...no talks until August.steveincolorado likes this. -
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I do think the owners in the NBA are basically moving towards throwing a season away if it means a better deal for them down the road. Funny thing is the owners that are losing money are their own worst enemies. When teams started throwing huge guaranteed contracts at any 7 footer with a pulse and over paying every free agent this is what happens when you combine guaranteed contracts and terrible team management.
The NBA owners are some of the dumbest in any professional sport, how many guys are floating around with bad contracts that go from team to team in order to make trades work? There aren't a whole bunch of guys making 15 million in the NFL that suck, in the NBA there are quite a few guys making 10 mill a year that aren't worth 10% of that. The owners do this stuff to themselves and now thousands of people depending on the league are going to be out of work in this economy? Nice move. I think Stern's legacy is going to be this lockout and labor deal.
I was really interested in this years playoffs for the first time in a long time, and my team wasn't even in the playoffs. Now we are looking at a lost year? Bad move, I haven't had even the slightest interest in the NHL since their labor issues to be honest. -
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I think it's disrespectful to compare basketball players to kickers... basketball takes a lot of skill and you must be in good shape. Obviously you've never played the game competitively in your lifetime to think likewise. -
Sign a young player to big money in the NBA they could very well ride the bench in a suit for a yr until their contract is nearing experation and then they have some form of trade value, which was one of the ways the Heat could land the 3 guys, but the owner had to pay huge money to get to the point where they could sign them, eat the bad contracts then pay for the new ones.
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I love when fans tell NBA owners they should sign smarter contracts.
If your team got bounced out in the first round of the playoffs and didn't go above the salary cap to try and sign a FA to put them over the top, would you ***** and moan, or would you say, "I'm glad my owner made the smart play and stayed profitable rather than going for it all and trying to win."
The owners are in a Catch-22 - spend over the cap trying to win and lose money, or don't spend the money, turn off your fan base and lose money.
I think I saw a stat that the last 6 NBA champions have been over the salary cap - meaning in a league that is already run by the teams with the most money / best place to party, the gap grows wider by the teams in large markets.
I'm not blaming the players, obviously they should fight to get everything they can - but at the same time, if teams aren't profitable, the system should be changed. Sooner or later that is going to impact the players and their ability to make money.Stitches likes this. -
How does all American sport get into this state ? Ive never seen anything like this in any soccer league across the globe.
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This is another prime example of why ALL unions should be abolished.