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Sterns and Owners not budging one iota!!!

Currently players get 57 % I think at 50/50 everyone should be happy. Then again that would be WAY to easy.
 
As a concession to lowering from 57%, the players want (among other things) a second midlevel exception. I'm not sure if this is so-called "fuzzy math" being espoused by Stern, but he claims that that would actually serve to increase NBA payrolls. More than likely, Stern will tell Billy Hunter to get lost.
 
I want the elimination of guaranteed contracts. I could care less if a guy is making $100 billion per year just as long as he's busting his butt. Instead, we get guys like AK and Boozer, who work their whole lives to get that one pretty guaranteed deal, and then it's coast time. There's a lot of other examples of this too. They have no sense to improve, stay in shape, get healthy, or play once that guaranteed contract is in place. If the NBA operated under a system more like the NFL, players would have much more of a sense to give fans (and owners) more bang for their buck.
 
I wonder what a lockout is going to do for the sport? I haven't yet witnessed one single lockout that didn't result in a big drop in ratings and ticket sells. What's funny, is that all the lockouts that I've seen have occurred when the economy has been good. I wonder what "Joe Sixpack" will think of these NBA players after losing his home, seeing his health care insurance premium increase another 10 percent, taking another part time job, and watching gas prices go over $4 per gallon?
 
The Thriller said:
I wonder what a lockout is going to do for the sport? What's funny, is that all the lockouts that I've seen have occurred when the economy has been good. I wonder what "Joe Sixpack" will think of these NBA players after losing his home, seeing his health care insurance premium increase another 10 percent, taking another part time job, and watching gas prices go over $4 per gallon?
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....good point! I suspect they will become even more cynical than me!!!
 
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