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Lockout!!!

Reading through some of those articles, it makes it even easier to hate guys like Kobe Bryant and Kevin Garnett. Those guys have had many, many years of making NBA max money under their belts, they have endorsement deals coming our their asses (even after the rape) and I would have to assume that even if they never played another minute of NBA basketball in their lives, their financial future is already more than set. I bet it's pretty easy to sit in that position and tell fellow NBA players that they should agree not to budge from a 53% share. That smacks of so much arrogance.

While missing games in an effort to sweeten the deal may be just fine for those 2, try telling guys like Jeremy Evans it's worth missing an entire season for a few extra percentage points. The majority of the NBA is made up of non-Kobe's and non-Garnetts. I hope the rank and file players tell Kobe and friends to take their demands and shove them up their asses.
 
Let all the players and the owners rot for all I care. I will find better things to do with my time.
 
billyshelby said:
Never read the NYTimes for sports. Or much else. But definitely not for sports. They promote janitors to sports reporters over there.
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Let's be better than politicians and evaluate the substance, not the source.

In this case, the article is informative and not too controversial, for better or for worse.

BTW, the article is written by Howard Beck (who has been covering the NBA for 6+ years for the NYT), not Pete Thamel (who has covered NYT's college sports beat for 9+ years).
https://www.knicksvision.com/2010/09/interview-howard-beck-of-the-new-york-times/


In any case, the NBAPA is foolish to insist on 53% share; that's more than the NFL players' share before the latest lockout, and the NFLPA ended up with 47%--which may help to support why the NBA owners' starting offer of 46% for the players wasn't as preposterous as it might have seemed.
https://www.nfl.com/news/story/0900...disagree-on-interpretation-of-revenue-figures

I didn't readily see the MLB players' current revenue share, but in 2008, it was 51%.
https://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110114&content_id=16441712&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb

Take 50-50, players; and be grateful. Stop Crymeloing around. The majority of owners can get the remaining whiny holdout owners to agree to an even split.
 
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