Why would you link to a document that references a Collective Bargaining Agreement that is no longer in effect, as the CBA expired 10 months after that document was prepared? That link has zero meaning to anyone, since it has expired. Does the actual, current Collective Bargaining Agreement that is active and now in effect contain a clause like that? If it does, that would be relevant. That link is useless.
I'm out and about. Here's the 2011 CBA. Knock yourself out. http://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/172760974
What, I'm just supposed to believe you when you say it's in there? I believe that is covered by Commandment #8 (I know you like to quote The 10 Commandments of Logic) But just for shits and grins, let's assume it is, since it is in pretty much any Collective Bargaining Agreement between any Labor Union and any Management in any field of work. You're more than welcome to believe what you wish. Of course it will make our discussions much briefer, since we now know the majority of discussions here are just based on hearsay, so why bother?
tsk tsk. The cap stuff is great message board fodder, no doubt. I think it's truly great. I just wouldn't bet the ranch that it's accurate. I would not be surprised if the Bulls have $100K to $1M more or less than you guys think they have under/over the cap. What I believe is that to disclose the contract details we're seeing in tweets and articles and other sources violates the non-disclosure clause. That's why "sources familiar with the terms" (or whatever) are mentioned an not the actual source. If there is an actual source. For shits and grins, let's assume it is the players' agents. So it's player's agent telling a professional sportswriter the terms and that hearsay (it's not quoting the agent) is what everyone is going on. For the record, I have no idea who's telling the sportswriters what. I don't want to know, either.
I actually just saw a Java Servlet Exception error on your site this morning while clicking a link off of this page. http://data.shamsports.com/content/pages/playerProfiles/profileIndex.jsp It was one of the names in the A group. I forgot which one and I tried clicking on some random A names and could not recreate it. It looked like this one though. http://data.shamsports.com/content/pages/playerProfiles/profileDisplay.jsp?id=8000 When there is an invalid ID in the querystring you get that ugly error message page along with the stack trace and the actual lines of code that are generating the error. You probably don't want that. Anywho, its not hard on Tomcat to create a nicer looking error page. And you should catch Exceptions when programming Java anyway. So, if Denny ran into it this morning as did I, you might have something to troubleshoot. Look at that, free QA for your ShamSports conglomerate. All you had to do was post on SportsTwo.com.
Shouldn't be exposing tomcat directly to the internet either. I didn't look to see if he's doing that.
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/mark-deeks-nba-contracts-cba/ Mark Deeks: The Englishman Who Went Up the Internet But Came Down an NBA Contracts Expert Deeks is open about wanting to find a job in an NBA front office. Many people I spoke to think it’s possible. “When people ask me if I know anyone,” said Larry Coon, who runs cbafaq.com, “I tell them Deeks.”
Just read the article on one of our newest posters (though it wouldn't surprise me if he prefers friendlier confines and we've seen the last of him here...our loss). Also from the article:
The lad obviously understands the collective bargaining agreement quite well. As for this. Saw this yesterday morning while trying to read something on the site.
