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"I feel like a couple years should be guaranteed, but not all the money should be guaranteed. That's one thing we can't do like football. People have to come out and play. There are a lot of people fighting to be in the NBA. Not a lot of people get the opportunity; there are 400, 500 people that actually play during the season. There are thousands on top of thousands fighting trying to get in the NBA, and I feel like it's up to the ones who are there to keep their spot."

-NBA Rookie Chris Singleton

Anyone else surprised he suggested that contracts should not be 100% guaranteed?

https://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/33062/locked-out-rookie-on-the-record
 
AlaskanAssassin said:
"I feel like a couple years should be guaranteed, but not all the money should be guaranteed. That's one thing we can't do like football. People have to come out and play. There are a lot of people fighting to be in the NBA. Not a lot of people get the opportunity; there are 400, 500 people that actually play during the season. There are thousands on top of thousands fighting trying to get in the NBA, and I feel like it's up to the ones who are there to keep their spot."

-NBA Rookie Chris Singleton

Anyone else surprised he suggested that contracts should not be 100% guaranteed?

https://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/33062/locked-out-rookie-on-the-record
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Maybe he is just trying to endear himself to the fans of his new team?
 
If stupidity hurt, the whole world would be howling in pain. David West would apparently have to be on morphine.

What makes this lockout different from the one 13 years ago is that the rise of mass media has made people dumber, yet it has also convinced them they are smarter. Thanks to the internet, everyone has now become an expert on everything. You google "NBA CBA," read an article written by a hack at ESPN or Yahoo about it(not one of those guys has a background in labour law, as far as I know) and suddenly, you become competent enough to discuss finer points of the BRI split with people who think about that stuff for a living.

It is no coincidence that the loudest players in this whole imbroglio are the ones with least education. Garnett, Kobe, LeBron...guys with high school diplomas. Read three tweets and one wikipedia page about the lockout and they are suddenly equal to the actual professionals hired by the union to negotiate. I'm in a union. I'm a teacher. Do you think I barge into negotiation meetings? No, because I'm a f*cking teacher. The reason the union takes a portion of my paycheque every month is so they can hire lawyers who know much more about this than I do. I teach kids. They negotiate my wages. I'm not going to get involved in the negotiations any more than they are going to come teach my class. I trust that they are doing their best because we pay them. How much more can I do than that?
 
I hope the power play works. But my guess is the best it produces is 51. It would be nice if the contingent of players who see 51 as the practical victory would have their own conference call and take back control of their own self interest rather than following superstars tilting at windmills.
 
billyshelby said:
I hope the power play works. But my guess is the best it produces is 51. It would be nice if the contingent of players who see 51 as the practical victory would have their own conference call and take back control of their own self interest rather than following superstars tilting at windmills.
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.....the players are NOT getting 51! Throw that completely out of your mind! They have a better chance of getting 45 than 51!
 
Let's hope the decertification process goes through. Then the guys like DumbWade, LeClueless and Crybaby can try to form their own league and take the power agents with them. The rest can come to their senses, start a new union and the NBA can get back to business.
 
colton said:
I wouldn't really consider that a lot of love. Only two of the five guys listed Kanter in their top five rookies. The one guy who listed Burks doesn't make up for that, in my opinion.
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I said some love, not a lot of love.
 
A group of between 10 and 14 owners, led by Michael Jordan, is promising to oppose any deal that gives players more than 50 percent of revenue.

This group of owners wants the players' share of BRI not to exceed 47 percent and was upset when the NBA proposed a 50-50 split.

A majority of owners are believed to support a 50-50 deal.

“There’s no one who’s interested in going above 50 percent,” said the person who has spoken with the owners.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/05/...-latest-nba-negotiations.html?_r=2&ref=sports
 
Great News!! We can end all this talk about BRI and the poiintless debate over 52, 51, 50. The NBA Lockout is only about R-E-S-P-E-C-T, the players want it.

And I'm sure the way the players act and the things they say & Tweet it will be no time at all before we all respect them again and we can get back to playing basketball.

This is quite possibly the worst Lock-out article yet.

https://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/nba-owners-count-on-players-to-cave-like-lebron-james-110411
 
GlassEater said:
Let's hope the decertification process goes through. Then the guys like DumbWade, LeClueless and Crybaby can try to form their own league and take the power agents with them. The rest can come to their senses, start a new union and the NBA can get back to business.
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You should probably read Larry Coon's article to better understand the particulars of a decertification.
 
This is like hunkering down for a major storm. At first you hope the storm doesn't come, but once it does you kind of want to see a good show. Let them decertify. That'll keep them off the court for a good long time, could possibly destroy the league. Then the players will be in control. Granted, there will be nothing left to be in control of, but we sure won't have the players to kick around anymore.
 
mellow said:
Great News!! We can end all this talk about BRI and the poiintless debate over 52, 51, 50. The NBA Lockout is only about R-E-S-P-E-C-T, the players want it.

And I'm sure the way the players act and the things they say & Tweet it will be no time at all before we all respect them again and we can get back to playing basketball.

This is quite possibly the worst Lock-out article yet.

https://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/nba-owners-count-on-players-to-cave-like-lebron-james-110411
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...it's about respect, alright!....and the owners are going to FORCE these pathetic looking thugs to respect there elders! NBA players, for the most part, are the low sink of debauchery by the way they look, act and play basketball. They are the dregs of professional athletes! And they've been getting away with it and been paid handsomely for it for years! The party's over pal!
 
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