Quiz: Which is your favorite movie now showing repeatedly on NBA-TV? Teen Wolf One on One The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh Fletch Fletch Lives Transformer Chopped http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ba...n-network-limps-through-its-wo?urn=nba-wp9349
Well, the pro-players' side has their cute little quips in this thread, but the reality is that the majority of fans don't side with them. Kobe ryant playing overseas for $2 million/game doesn't really show solidarity, does it? Seems more like a big middle finger to the NBA, the Lakers, and the players by Kobe, as he makes a money grab.
Tom Ziller is an idiot. The Kings lost a crapload of money last year. How much do the Maloofs have to lose in their Sacto Barn per year to appease Tom Ziller? They were losing money when they were competitive, for chrssakes.
Irrelevant. The two sides aren't competing for popularity with the fans. The fans have nothing to do with the outcome. You can circle around a dogfight and whoop it up, but your sentiment won't affect the fighters. Ziller is the Kings reporter for the SB site. He knows the Kings.
Stern had a gut feeling that no deal by Tuesday this week means no Christmas games. Can we expect more games to be cancelled tomorrow?
“If there’s a breakthrough, it’s going to come on Tuesday,” Stern told NBA TV. “And if not, I think that the season is really going to potentially escape from us because we aren’t making any progress.” Cohen, who tried to resolve the NFL’s labor dispute, met with the sides individually at their offices in New York on Monday. He will then oversee talks between their full bargaining committees Tuesday at a hotel. http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=Amy6Pwqq7QgFpQNmSUQBW7a8vLYF?slug=ap-nbalabor
No one told me that. Although in another post of mine somewhere I had said someone that might know such things said deal would be done Nov 1st, season would start a few weeks after
Davey is so talented at tightening the screws on the players. They will yield to his pressure Tuesday, or else he'll issue his daily proclamation that the next day is the crucial day.
Big Day Tuesday breakdown! http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/page/mediator-111018/nba-lockout-george-cohen-save-season
http://eye-on-basketball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/22748484/32730527 Interesting story on why the last talk melted down. Three NBA Players negotiated (Kobe, Pierce, Garnett) and one flipped out while the others said a 50/50 split wasnt fair to the players.
The owners want the public to support the players. It's critical for the owners that there is minimal long-term public backlash aimed towards the players. The owners know the lockout will end eventually. At that point the owners make money by fans tuning in on TV or physically coming to arenas to watch the players. Owners don't make money from fans watching owners!
Why will a deal be done 11/1 and not now? Seems a bit odd if the end date is already known. I'm guessing this lasts through the holidays, and Stern will cancel games through XMas tomorrow if no deal is reached today.
I dunno? My guess is that having a deal done Nov 1st will save the face of someone? Players might get money lost from games? Owners might get other goodies? That's just the date someone has been hearing as likely to be done on
KBergCBS.......... Meetings began around 10 a.m. ET, so by unofficial count, going on four hours. As you know, this means ... absolutely nothing.
ChrisMannixSI...... Much as I'd like to be optimistic about NBA/NBPA mediation entering hour four, we have been down this road before. Need a major concession.
That's incorrect, PapaG. Players signing (or at least threatening to sign) with overseas teams is an attempt to put pressure on the owners. It's a demonstration that the star players have options, that the NBA isn't the proverbial "only game in town" for the players.
