NBA work stoppage next?

[bcoop]

Really, dude? How many rule changes have there been since he took over? How many percentage points have fines increased? And him and the league still think they don't take a big enough slice out of the pie.

Yes, really. I don't like everything he has done (rule changes), but the players are the ones pushing for it! They are also the ones pushing for higher fines (see the Brady Rule).



I just don't think he's even a thousandth of a percent of the slimebag douche that Stern is. Goodell is doing what he thinks is right for the players, owners, and the league. Stern is a smarmy, crooked, cocksucker.

[mstng86]

[hotrod66stang]

Goodell is doing what he thinks is right for the players, owners, and the league. Stern is a smarmy, crooked, cocksucker.

So whose side are you on re: the NBA, the players or owners?

This isn't a set-up, by any means. I was pretty ambivalent about the NFL situation until I read your (and others') opinions on the matter, and more of the facts. If the lockout happens (very likely), with whom do you assign a majority of the blame? The players for being greedy, the owners for being greedy, Stern for seemingly only looking out for the owners (wanting to guarantee $10mm/year)?

[pHILSANITY07]

I dont know if its been said already but the NBA has cancelled all 43 preseason games. I think this is a sign that a deal wont get done before the season begins.

[bcoop]

So whose side are you on re: the NBA, the players or owners?

This isn't a set-up, by any means. I was pretty ambivalent about the NFL situation until I read your (and others') opinions on the matter, and more of the facts. If the lockout happens (very likely), with whom do you assign a majority of the blame? The players for being greedy, the owners for being greedy, Stern for seemingly only looking out for the owners (wanting to guarantee $10mm/year)?

To be perfectly honest, this is the one and only article I've even read on the matter. I don't pay near as much attention to basketball as I do football. I'm a lifelong Mavs fan, but everything else stops for me when it's football time. So really, I'm not informed enough about all the issues to even form an opinion.

[pHILSANITY07]

I've slowly started to lose interest in the NBA in the last few years.

[momo]

stern is hitler.

there is only one worse sports dictator and that is bernie ecclestone.

[pHILSANITY07]

NBA Commish David Stern announced that the rest of the NBA Preseason Schedule has been cancelled. Also said that if a deal isn't done by next monday that the first two weeks of the NBA season will be cancelled.

[bjtheman1]

I follow NBA more than anything and this fucking sucks. I've never liked Stern and he has always been about himself throughout the league. I wish he'd leave, hell a majority of the NBA itself doesn't care much for him either.

[pHILSANITY07]

I follow NBA more than anything and this fucking sucks. I've never liked Stern and he has always been about himself throughout the league. I wish he'd leave, hell a majority of the NBA itself doesn't care much for him either.

I watch the NBA, but I lose nothing if they do decide to lockout the entire season. I have the NFL and college football on the weekend to watch, and soon college basketball starts. Once the football ends in the first weekend of feburary I have nascar to watch a week later.

If I was in charge of this situation, id put everyone that matters from the owners union and the players union and put them in a room and lock the door. You can't come out of this room to eat, crap, drink, etc until a deal is in place and you both agree to the terms.

[Mike]

I hope they cancel the season. I hate the traffic downtown on game nights.

[Slowhand]

Good fucking riddance, I hope the whole damn league falls apart.

[90GT50]

Good fucking riddance, I hope the whole damn league falls apart.

Same boat.

[Juiced4v]

Tony Parker is said to start playing for a League in France for $1,995 a month...

[Geor!]

First two weeks canceled.