NBA Lockout discussion. *Update 11/14* Union to Decertify

[NAHSTE]

Stern says the owners will now try to recoup all loses from the missed games in the next negotiation.

Sounds like a jew move.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Sounds like a jew move.

David STERN

[thilanwij]

Every little bit helps.

Yup. I'm tired of waiting for all the BS to end. Im sick of this ish.

[Point Blank]

This shit is pissing me off. CBB needs to hurry and get here.

[FirstTimer]

Not caring.

[NAHSTE]

Season should be starting tonight. It's not. I think that sucks.

[EmpireWF]

Talk is the cap will stay about the same initially ($58 million) and then raise up to $61 million for the 2012-13 season.

Ironically, just when the Knicks would have about $20 million to spend on a free agent like Chris Paul, Deron Williams or Dwight Howard.

[Houston]

Damn, if it started tonight I'd have something to watch. Right now The Rockets would just narrowly be getting beat by The Lakers or another top tier team, only to get whooped by everyone else for the rest of the season.

[Bomberooski]

No NBA = Uncharted 3

[EmpireWF]

Ugh, now rumblings that the union is researching what it would take to decertify.

Amazing how close they appeared to be a week ago and how quickly the momentum was butchered like a Tony Romo playoff performance.

[Warner2BruceTD]

The players are going to break, and the owners know it. The players never had leverage here. Hunter is trying to do his job, but he will come out of this a huge loser. These negotiations are often all about who has the leverage more than who has the negotiation acumen. The MLB union often had immense leverage over the baseball owners, so fuckface Donald Fehr always looked like a savant, when in reality those negotiations were blowouts waiting to happen.

[EmpireWF]

So safe to assume the threat of the players decertifying is how they're trying to gain leverage.

[FedEx227]

All the while they are ripping apart at the seams with people calling out Derek Fisher.

[Kuzzy Powers]

Michael Jordan is reportedly leading a group of 10-14 owners who are threatening to vote against even a 50-50 split of BRI.
Jordan has been criticized for his silence throughout most of the CBA negotiations (though he was fined $100k for public comments), but that perception has quickly changed. He and the hard-line owners were originally pushing for the players to receive no more than 47% of BRI, and were upset at the 50-50 deal. This could be posturing to force the players to accept 50-50, and the players (with fragmented opinions and a half-hearted bid to dissolve the union) have almost no leverage.

How ironic..

[FedEx227]

I'm not sure it's ironic to be ironic Jordan would've had to been a former player that was extremely outspoken about players BRI being much higher and maybe even ironic if he led the charge towards a strike himself during his playing days...

Oh....