I hope some of these tools have to file bankruptcy. This is essentially alienating themselves from the average NBA fan. The 99%'er if you will. Good job of giving a black eye to your following you self-righteous turd-heads.
I'm glad to hear someone else say that. When all those players were walking up to the podium I only recognized a handful. It's like when you have "gym friends". You only see them at your zumba class but then you run into them at the grocery store. You know they look really familiar but can't figure out who they are because they're in street clothes.
Add to it that it's usually the NBA players that walk thru kids wanting autographs like their gods. I may be a mega sports fan, but this is too much. Blow it up and start all over.
A record number of Americans (48 mill) are on food stamps, and millions more are unemployed, but the NBA owners say they're getting a raw deal . . . the owners are living in a fool's paradise. If this season is cancelled, I may rethink my commitment to the NBA. I'm sick and tired of spoiled egotistical billionaire nerds who have no grasp on reality.
Some of the NBA franchises barely make a profit, or lose money, whereas all of the NBA players have very fat contracts . . . You do the math.
Great find! It's fascinating to read the proposal that the players received. It's actually written in plain English, rather than in Lawyer's terms. I was interested to learn, among other things, that the league places an annual $3 million limit on cash included in any trade. I recall that two of Portland's trades in recent years included a $3 million cash component, and now I know why. That was all they could offer!
At the early pre-lockout owner meetings some of the hard line owners were so pissed they yelled at Stern that they would hold out not only one season to get a better deal but cancel two full seasons. Ultimately if we get more parity in the league, get rid of malcontents on long fat guaranteed contracts, prevent superteams, prevent top payroll teams from signing max MLE guys to $35 million contracts; I would have more interest in the NBA. A lost season or two would be brutal in the short term but if it made for a substantially improved product I’d welcome it.
