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

[FirstTimer]

The Owners seem to want everything but won't give up anything from what i've heard and read.

:lolwut:

[Chrispy]

:lolwut:

Not literally......

[Bomberooski]

This NBA day has pissed me off.


Also, who was the guy who used to always post in the NBA section with the Chris Bosh avatar?

[shag773]

I really don't know a lot about this lockout, but the fact that the union waited until 3 weeks into the season to decertify tells me everything I need to know about how this union has been directed. Have fun guys, I'll get my basketball action from the big 5.

[thilanwij]

Fck The NBA Lockout. I can't take this anymore. No NBA this year? ughhhh pissing me off, i just wished the players accepted the offer instead

[Woy]

[Rudi]

Deal has been reached. Season starts on Christmas. Oh boy

[Obst]

Training Camp and Free Agency scheduled to begin on December 9th. 66 game regular season.

[Houston]

Nice.

[NAHSTE]

Awesome!

[Warner2BruceTD]

I love how ESPN showed tweets from such famous NBA stars as Jeremy Lin and somebody only identified as "Ivan". Likely the only players awake.

[Chrispy]

And not a single fuck was given.......

[EmpireWF]

From Wojo's twitter....

There will be a significant number of players who will not vote to approve this deal, but there won't be a majority. The deal will pass.

One vet player texting me, doubting he'll vote to approve deal. "We (bleeping) caved," he said. He's been entrenched on issues entire way.

[SHOGUN]

_ On the financial split, the players will receive between 49 and 51 percent of revenues, depending on annual growth. The players had complained prior to Saturday that the owners’ previous offer effectively limited them to 50.2 percent of revenues, but the source said 51 percent was now reasonably achievable with robust growth.

_Owners dropped their insistence on what would have been known as the Carmelo Anthony rule, preventing teams from executing extend-and-trade deals similar to the one that sent Anthony from the Denver Nuggets to the New York Knicks last season. This means that if Dwight Howard, Deron Williams and Chris Paul want to leverage their way out of Orlando, New Jersey and New Orleans, they will still be eligible to sign four-year extensions with their current teams before being immediately traded elsewhere.

_ Teams above the salary cap will be able to offer four-year mid-level exception contracts to free agents each season. Previously, owners were asking that teams be limited to offering a four-year deal one year, a three-year deal the next, then four, then three, etc.

_ The rookie salary scale and veteran minimum salaries will stay the same as they were last season. Owners had been seeking 12 percent cuts.

_ Qualifying offers to restricted free agents will become “significantly” improved. The sides had already agreed to reduce the time for a team to match an offer to a restricted free agent from 7 days to 3.

_ A new $2.5 million exception will be available to teams that go blow the salary cap, then use all of their cap room to sign free agents. Once they are back above the cap, they will be able to use the new exception instead of being limited to filling out their rosters with players on minimum contracts.

_ The prohibition on luxury tax-paying teams from executing sign-and-trade deals was loosened, although the freedom to execute those types of deals will still be limited.

[EmpireWF]

And there is an amnesty clause allowing each team to cut 1 player without them counting against the cap or tax.