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October 9, 2011While We’re Waiting… Buckeye Misfortunes, Sizemore Replacement and Pass Protection
October 10, 2011Looks like the NBA dropped it’s pre-meeting demand of a 50-50 revenue split and met with the players union on Sunday night. If the sides can’t come to a deal by Monday, they’ll start canceling regular season games (preseason games have already been lost).
Maybe I’m nuts, but even if the sides DO come to an agreement by the Monday deadline, I have a hard time believing they’ll be all set to play on November first. We still need to have an offseason, some kind of training camp (at least a week, no?) and some kind of exhibition season.
(via ESPN):
The NBA’s top labor negotiators and their counterparts in the players’ union will meet Sunday night in an 11th-hour attempt to avert the cancellation of any regular-season games, sources with knowledge of the situation confirmed to ESPN The Magazine’s Chris Broussard.
The unexpected session will include commissioner David Stern, deputy commissioner Adam Silver, union president Derek Fisher and union executive director Billy Hunter, the sources said.
[snip]
The players did not agree to the 50-50 split before Sunday’s talks, however. The owners simply relaxed their demand, the sources told Broussard.Players were guaranteed 57 percent of basketball-related income under the previous collective bargaining agreement and have proposed lowering it to 53 percent in a new deal, but that remaining 3 percent represents an unbridged gap of about $120 million.
The union still plans to hold a Monday meeting in Los Angeles, and leaders plan on flying out there Monday morning.
Even if they don’t get a deal done, I’m still optimistic that progress is being made. Talks seem to be going somewhere (via yahoo):
The players’ last formal proposal had them reducing their share of the league’s basketball-related income (BRI) from 57 percent in the previous labor deal to 53.
They may end up missing games (after all, 53% isn’t 50%) but at least there’s a dialogue occurring. Because both sides seem to be engaged, I’m not worried about them canceling the whole season just yet. Now, the season may not start on time, but in 1999 they started playing in February, so we still have time before the whole season is in jeopardy.
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If a season were too happen, I would want the Cavs to earn the very last pick in the first round. Since that wouldn’t happen and my desires would inevitably be destroyed, now, I can root for the lockout to happen and still get the 2nd highest lottery chance. Sullinger, Barnes, Jones, or some freshman? Talent galore!!!
ugh, grammar. *to*
im perfectly cool with sitting out the season if the owners dont get a ‘franchise player’ type concession. league is dead in milwaukee, indy, minny, detroit, and cleve without it.
I, for one, am rooting for the work stoppage.
both sides were prepared to miss games, so it is no surprise that we are going to miss games.