You won't hear it officially announced because both sides will have to sell it to their constituents. Billy Hunter, the NBA player's association president will have to sell the deal to the players. David Stern will have to sell it to NBA team owners. But with both sides on the brink of losing a season and millions of dollars of revenue, a deal should get done today.
Despite the rhetoric you may have heard, the two sides are not that far apart. Several concepts unfavorable to the players have already been withdrawn: a hard salary cap for each team, non-guaranteed contracts for ALL players and salary rollbacks for players. The only item left to decide is the revenue split between team owners and players. Look for that to end up something close to 50-50.
You heard it here first. The NBA will end the lockout, giving the Dallas Mavericks and Dirk Nowitzki the opportunity to defend their title.
A few of your readers hope there is no deal on the preseason. In fact I am sort of hoping the regular season is scrapped, or, even better, that the leagues disband and fall away. There is a compromise, Mr.,and you may know what it is. Shorten the games. Award 100 points to each team, let them play 15 minutes, and see who wins. What say, Mister?
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This mister says, " What the hell game are you talking about " ?
ReplyDeleteBasketball is what I wrote about. The season is too long, the games are too long and there are too many of them. This results in fan fatigue and isn't helpful for the industry of basketball. Mikal Fisher
ReplyDeleteLooks like you were wrong about the lockout. You're a fucking moronic putz.
ReplyDelete"Looks like you were wrong about the lockout. You're a fucking moronic putz."
ReplyDeleteYes, I was wrong about the lockout. As far as your other charge, I defer to your judgement.
Jim
ps: A shortened season is fine. Handing each team 100 points to start the game? I don't understand the rationale for that.
Jim, this is my rationale. We wouldn't have to suffer through a game in which both teams run the score to up around 100. Instead, both teams would be given 100 points, than they could play for a total of 15 minutes. In theory, the end scores would be a lot like the ones which result in regular games, but we would only need to watch for 15 minutes instead of however long a regular game lasts.
ReplyDeleteI sort of like watching basketball, but the monotony of seeing a regular timed game is mind numbing.