WojYahooNBA Adrian Wojnarowski The NBA informed teams late this afternoon that games through December 15th have been cancelled, a front office executive says.
The NBA is like MCDonalds to me. There's the main company and a number of franchises owned by individuals. You have to pay a franchise fee, as well as other qualifications to become an owner. They may also have other restrictions, like not allowing you to open a restaurant too close to another. I don't think the workers are unionized. A franchise in Alabama may pay minimum wage, while one in the SF Bay area during boom times might have to pay double just to find willing employees. There's nothing stopping two employees from opening a burger joint, but they might not be able to open their own franchise. $.02
The NBA informed teams late this afternoon that games through December 15th have been cancelled, a front office executive says.
We only got a couple weeks until the remainder of the 2011 calendar games will be cancelled, including the prized Christmas day game. The league has maintained they need about a month from a handshake deal until the regular season can start. With the union converting to a trade association, Hunter and Fisher said they can no longer collectively bargain on behalf of the players. I’m curious what the minimum amount of time to end the lockout would be? If a majority of players and owners agreed on a deal could they reform the union and have a deal approved immediately? Or would there now be a drawn out legal process that takes an additional month or two at the minimum even if both parties wanted to resume play?
We're still only seeing a trickle of people going overseas (today I read about Casspi to Israel and Splitter to Freeland's Unicaja - and they're both returning to leagues they've played in before) which suggests to me that the players still believe this can be resolved. Teams like Real Madrid and Barcelona (which, remember, have enormously profitable "soccer" teams as part of their organization) have real money to throw around if a star NBA player wanted to agree to play for the whole season.
Screw the players, they are among the highest paid athletes in the world...I hope the owners take them to the woodshed..... unguaranteed contracts...hard salary cap...just like the NFL, whose players BTW are UNDERPAID for the risks they take to play thier profession.... I don't see the courts ruling in the players' favor...there are other leagues, other ways to make thier living....albeit none so lucrative as the NBA, which has so unfairly bargained with them for a new deal..... What a joke...this is all about Players' ego....1st, 2nd and 3rd... a bunch of prima donnas who have been coddled and told they are the man for thier whole fucking life and now suddenly think that THEY are going to tell\show the owners...KG, Pierce, Wade fuck them....Players come and go, franchises are here for the long haul, and there will always be another Lebron, Wade, Kobe.....ALWAYS..... I don't feel bad for them, never have, doubt I ever will...bring on the scab players , I'll go watch them, probably be better basketball quite honestly...at least I won't be watching some overpriced slug play like he doesn't give a shit and try not to remind myself that.."Oh yeah, he is ONLY making $12 mil a year..." and I don't want to hear this shit about how the owners paid them this type of money, they don't really have a choice...either they remain an uncompetitive\bottom dweller in the name of fiscal conservatism....or they pay the going rate....and the rich get richer and the rest of the league sufffers....and the players in thier ego driven maniacal behavior were pushing owners to thier hardline stance anyway...the whole Miami triad fiasco? Amare and the Carmelo mess in Denver? Chris Paul's impending Free agent super tour? You can't have a competitive league in BASKETBALL when the best players are grouping together to play on super teams.... Another reason why the NFL got it right BTW....ANY team has a legit chance to win an NBA title....in the current NBA? mmm...not so much and in the future with the way it was headed? Not a fucking chance in hell...... Love basketball, but I can enjoy college basketball just as much as the NBA....as can most people...I look forward to watching NBA basketball under a new stricter labor agreement, one that hopefully includes non guaranteed contracts and a hard cap....
Just been channeling my inner Seinfeld lately. [video=youtube;ME48DbhIn_0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME48DbhIn_0[/video]
Man, the news conference by the former NBAPA is intense. It will be interesting to hear the owners side of the argument Anti trust filed in Cali and MInny
KBergCBS Dvid Boies says he case is based on a boycott of NBA teams, a per se violation of antitrust laws.
Boies says there is "no doubt" that this boycott is a violation of antitrust laws. Only question is whether NBA has labor exemption.
