<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">National Basketball Association fans across the country, in Canada and around the world should take a long look at what is going on in the National Hockey League lockout because the odds are pretty good that basketball fans will be witnessing an NBA work stoppage at this time next year. And it has nothing to do with the Pistons-Pacers brawl in Auburn Hills, Mich. advertisement It?s all about money.</div> Like NHL owners, NBA owners want to change their business model and get even more cost certainty and tighten budgets. They want their teams to be more profitable and they are going to ask the players to agree to what they want and if the players don?t, it's too bad. There's been rumuors that there might be a lockout next season, supposedly there was meant to be one this season, but they decided to go on with it anyway, if this is true, then replace Stern, he sucks... Source I dunno if this is new, old, real, fake but i'm worried...
It's definitely no fake. There is the possibility that this happens. Here is another quote from Orlando Sentinel January 19: <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">With its collective bargaining agreement set to expire after the season, NBA players are apparently bracing for a long negotiating battle with ownership. Magic forward Pat Garrity, the club's union representative, said that union president Billy Hunter has been polling players to gauge the depth of their commitment. "I talked to Billy and they have polled all the players as to which ones could withstand the year and which ones are set for life," Garrity said. "Apparently, 80 percent think they can last a year. Now that's guys saying that without losing checks, so that could change." . . .</div> http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/bask...?coll=orl-magic
this is certainly a possiblity.... but i heard an interview with David Stern, and he says that its not as serious as the NHL lockout, because the owners just want to tweak some things
Wtf these pro athletes get enough damn money to do arguably funnest job on the planet. I mean I'd do a career of basketball for anything. These players should appriciate what they have. They could be the guy fixing my toilet but they have a true talent.
One good thing about the NBA is that, unlike the NHL, most of the teams actually make money, and they have decent TV contract, and they have been well-accepted all over the country. They only need minor tweaks, not major changes like the NHL needed.
I actually found an article that has a positive outlook on the situation. Micheal Curry, President of the Players Union, is optimistic about getting a new CBA in place by the All-star break. Link to Article
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Ace2k2:</div><div class="quote_post">Wtf these pro athletes get enough damn money to do arguably funnest job on the planet. I mean I'd do a career of basketball for anything. These players should appriciate what they have. They could be the guy fixing my toilet but they have a true talent.</div> The players are not going on strike, the owners would be locking out the players, there's a huge difference. Either way, there will not be any sort of lockout or work stoppage in the NBA. No way, no chance in hell. The root of the problem in the NHL which caused the lockout is the owners want a salary cap and the players do not want a salary cap, if the players agreed to a salary cap there would be NHL hockey right now and the NBA already has a soft cap. In the NBA, no issue would be large enough for the owners to lockout the players unless numerous franchises were consistently losing money year after year and the owners wanted to forced a hard cap.
There better not be a lockout next year. I will be really ticked off if this happens. Basketball is my favorite sport of all and I would be really upset if it happens. It's one thing for me not to care about the hockey lockout since I am not a big hockey fan like I used to be, but it's another if there is a lockout in the NBA.
I don't think there will be a lockout next season. The situation in NHL is more complicated and the situation in NBA looks very easy to solve especially since players already play under a soft cap.
