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

[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.......











































:troll:

 

[EmpireWF]

:fuckyeah:

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.

 

[Point Blank]

Finally.

Mavs ring ceremony on Christmas? :fuckyeah:

 

[Bomberooski]

YYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

The players are actually pretty lucky that they got some of the concessions that they did. Yes, overall they lost (badly), but the owners threw them quite a few bones.

 

[thilanwij]

I'm so happy the NBA is back!!! I can finally watch some bball with players that I know of, and now I can get the most out of NBA 2k12 with rookies.

 

[EmpireWF]

"B-List" Issues Yet to Be Finalized

1. NBA Draft Eligibility
Players want to keep it as is which means incoming rooks must be 19-years old & 1 year out of high school.

Owners want to bump it up to 20-years old & 2 years out of high school.

Looks like players will budge and owners will get what they want. Among the players effected would include UConn's Andre Drummond and Kentucky's Anthony Davis, both of whom would have to wait until 2013 to enter the league.


2. Round 3 in NBA Draft
Owners want another round in the draft to control costs better and give them more bodies for the NBADL.

3. Drug Testing
Owners want more stringent testing

4.Commissioner's Ability to Discipline

5. The NBADL
Owners want to be able to send players down for up to 5 years and pay them less when doing so.

Players obviously don't want to take a pay cut.

6. Pension Benefits

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Based on what i've seen so far of Andre Drummond, he will be saved some humiliation by being forced to stay another year. He stinks.

 

[G-men]

Too bad they couldn't have cut out the fourth quarter of the season instead of the first. LeBron James would have been great if they did that.

 

[FirstTimer]

Players got bent over as expected but the owners at least used a bit of lube and threw them a few favors.

 

[Bomberooski]

I was already pumped for Christmas. Now I can't wear sweatpants in public for the next 4 weeks!

:smughard:

 

[Obst]

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

:yeah:

 

[Sharkweather]

Owners want to bump it up to 20-years old & 2 years out of high school.

Looks like players will budge and owners will get what they want.

Best thing to come out of this whole situation. College basketball going to be rockin'

 

[dave]

The NBA and its players knew they had to compromise. No one gave a f--k. If the NBA season had been cancelled, other than the real workers (arena employees, bars and restaurants near the arena, etc...), no one would have give a crap.

I'm happy for the real workers and side businesses who need the NBA, but at the end of the day this dispute meant nothing to most sports fans.

Rashard Lewis is still gonna make $20M or so a year. So is Gilbert Arenas.

 

[CrimsonGhost56]

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[ZoneBlitz]

The NBA and its players knew they had to compromise. No one gave a f--k. If the NBA season had been cancelled, other than the real workers (arena employees, bars and restaurants near the arena, etc...), no one would have give a crap.

I'm happy for the real workers and side businesses who need the NBA, but at the end of the day this dispute meant nothing to most sports fans.

Rashard Lewis is still gonna make $20M or so a year. So is Gilbert Arenas.

LOL @ someone who likes hockey saying no one gives a shit about basketball, people dont even know what channel hockey is on.

 

[Mogriffjr]

LOL @ someone who likes hockey saying no one gives a shit about basketball, people dont even know what channel hockey is on.

I just noticed hockey was back when they opened up with Sidney Crosby highlights...season started last week?