The Official S2 NBA Lockout Thread!

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  1. THE HCP

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    Hunter: "The bigger market (owners), the guys who want to cut a deal, don't have the votes."
     
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    Hunter: "Unfortunately what we have to do is miss more games for this to set in... We are on a slippery slope."
     
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    Hunter: "Philosophically, it's a real large gap between the groups." He added NBA wants pre-condition of 50-50 BRI to meet again.
     
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    Hunter on decertification: "All of our options are on the table. Everything."
     
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    NBPA's Hunter: "I just assume as time goes on they're going to cancel more games."
     
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    Hunter: "Let us say on the record we are ready to negotiate at any time. But we don't want any pre-conditions though."
     
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    KBergCBS Ken Berger



    Kessler says union was told Paul Allen was at meeting "to express the views of the other members of the Board of Governors."
     
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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    Subtext: "I'm talking really tough to give my union members the appearance that we actually have any leverage or power ... but damn I hope these guys don't wise up or I'm out of a job."
     
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    Billy Hunter going down swinging: "I think it's all about putting money in their pockets. It's nice to talk about teams being competitive."
     
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    For all the momentum that had taken shape, the trust in these labor talks has been obliterated. Never been worse between the sides. Never.
     
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    Neither Adam Silver nor Billy Hunter addressed the fact that the season finale of Jersey Shore is tonight
     
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    Well gee, no shit? Here I was thinking that business owners were in it to lose money!

    Hunter and Fisher are desperate, and their star players making millions overseas isn't helping their case at all.
     
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    BBert Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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    OMFG. That's hysterical. Literally.
     
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    BBert Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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    This should be a clue. Unfortunately, it seems Hunter doesn't have one.
     
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    BBert Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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    No preconditions. Except that he will never no way in hell ever accept "only" 50% of gross revenue, of course. No preconditions though.
     
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    Allen is getting called the "grim reaper" now. lol
     
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    He sort of was though. I compare it to a parent of one of those Paris Hilton wannabes saying "You will are moving out and I am taking the credit card away".
     
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    Kind of a shitty and insensitive label for him considering his recent recurrence of cancer and his battle with the disease. But, I don't expect the idiot player in the union to know or care about that...
     
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    "You think you can make it on your own? Well, go do it!"

    Every child at some point needs some firm parenting.
     
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    Spud147 Mercy Mercy

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    Do you remember that game show that Howie Mandell did with the models holding suitcases? I can't remember the name but this statement reminds me of a lot of the people that played the game. They'd always keep going to win the highest remaining dollar amount left even if the odds were completely against them. They'd gotten that far and were determined to "finish" what they started. Meanwhile they were shooting themselves in the foot everytime a suitcase was opened after a certain point because they just kept losing money by being greedy.
     
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