1st 2 weeks of NBA seaso cancelled
motown67
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Just heard the news. Very disappointing. I was really looking forward to this season with a new coach for the Warriors. The two sides appear to be far apart. From my understanding, the small time markets are losing money, and together all the owners are blaming the players for their large salaries. Many say a more effective revenue sharing deal between the rich and poor owners would actually solve the problem, but the big market teams don't want to share and its so easy to just go after the players. I expect the dispute to eventually end and the season to be played but it looks like a substantial number of games will be lost in the meantime.
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Fans deem Durant, Wade, and LeBoring as GOAT.
Glad to see another WARRIORS fan in here though. All around I think the NBA has so much talent, that is undoubtedly gonna be wasted with a short season.
Seconded.
b/w
Is the WNBA still giving out the "Attendance Champion" award?
more of this
no such thing.
millionaires vs. billionaires.
screw em.
The NYT has a good piece on this today. The real issue, it seems, is the fact that the NBA does not have a hard salary cap. You can break the cap as long as you pay a luxury tax. The result is that the Lakers pay out over $100 million in salaries while some teams pay less than half of that amount. Clearly, the low end market teams are disadvantaged in that respect.
The split over revenues b/w the players and the owners is the other major beef, but they don't seem too far apart.
I would love to see the NBA owners announce that they are holding tryouts so that the league can resume in the event that an agreement is not reached with the union. I'd pay a reduced ticket price to see locals play against locals, even if there is sub-par talent.
I'd also watch this.
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It's time to start the 4 foot and under league!
DC and the Verizon Center will be fine thanks to the Capitals.
Obviously we'd all like to see some games, but this simply is not going to happen. That would require the owners to pay people to pay, and not paying the players is one of their main pressure points against the union.