Blazers (and 9 other teams) got what they wanted?

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  1. Fez Hammersticks

    Fez Hammersticks スーパーバッド Zero Cool

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    good.
     
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    Yup, A year with no expenses.

    Stupid players, we just narrowly avoided a great depression and they expect things to be the same?
     
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    Not surprised to *not* see Brooklyn (Dwight Howard) or New York (Chris Paul) on this list.
     
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    I find it interesting Sterling (clippers) not on list
     
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    Outside Philly and Atlanta, I'm a little surprised the other mid-markets (Phoenix, Detroit, Golden State, Washington) didn't join in.
     
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    It's all small market teams (except for SA/UTA).
     
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    he doesn't care about winning, just the profit margin.
     
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    big ego's and meddling, money grubbing lawyers/agents, common sense take a back seat.
     
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    Good point.

    In fact Sterling is the owner who could scream "if you can't make a profit, sell your team." Sterling has constantly had medicore to bad rosters but makes a profit every year (I'm guessing). I do not want the Clippers being the model franchise when it comes to how to run an organization . . . but they might be just that.
     
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    Well, this tells me that 50-50 was the very top end of what the owners are going to be willing to offer. I'm guessing that the union feels they are calling a bluff on the owners, but it's obvious that the bluff is the union's, because they didn't even allow their members to vote on the proposal. I'm guessing there was a very good reason for that, and that Hunter and the other veterans figured that no vote was better than the result they were going to see, which would be, at best, a deep fracture in their union.
     
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    I think you're right that the 50-50 was the best the players are going to do. Or the best that they would do in a CBA environment... the odds of getting to a majority of owners agreeing to a better deal when ten are against the 50-50 split... that would be tough, it seems to me.

    I guess the players (or at least their leadership) feel they need to shake things up/change the rules of the game to get more, and while it might be their only hope, it might also blow up in their faces.

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    He always turns a profit! He's worked out that fielding a sucky team in a big market is a money-maker. So he doesn't want to miss games.
     
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    Um, remind me again how Billionaires have fared over the past few decades. Oh that's right - their wealth has MASSIVELY INCREASED!
     
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    Paul Allen's net worth has gone from $19 billion to ~$14 billion in the past decade or so.
     
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    I advise the owners that don't like it to sell quick before their teams depreciate in value. Then we can get a group of owners who are willing to go higher.
     
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    Yea so attack those Billionaires at their weakest link, their attorneys? :crazy:


    I don't care how "unfair" the deal was, the Players totally just alienated their fans once again
     
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  18. Rastapopoulos

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    He's not really representative. He's the "lucky" Billionaire.
     
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    Who is going to buy a team without a CBA being in place? Talk about selling low...

    Plus, the Hornets' sale has been in limbo for a year, and it's one of the lowest valued franchises in the NBA.
     
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    Not all of them are attorneys.

    Oh, you mean THEIR attorneys. Well, that's a different argument, and has nothing to do with the recession. But David Boies WAS an attorney for the NFL Owners.
     
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