Even though both sides are greedy ***holes, I'm with the owners BC hard caps and nonguaranteed contracts will lead to more evenly matched teams and a better product to watch, and the players get paid millions to PLAY BASKETBALL! they should count their blessings that they get paid millions to....PLAY BASKETBALL LOL
I love this lockout. I want the NBA owners to be bled dry. They have no leverage as far as I am concerned. The great players, the ones with voices are monetary stable, enjoying life, and/or have opportunities overseas. The aging ones that want to preserve their career, KG, Duncan, Nash -- don't have a very loud voice. Remember, Shaq, Hakeem, Malone, Stockton, etc... played a huge role in ending the last lockout. This time around, the older players that still carry weight aren't anywhere near their prime. The fringe players don't have a voice and are free to pursue basketball overseas. The fans, for the most part, already seem to be pulling away. Its a perfect storm and Stern's stubbornness is about to do him in. I've never seen a professional businessman on such a power trip in my life. Its absurd. What he did for the NBA in the past was great. But every year since implementing the dress code, hell, way before then, he has been on a weird sinister power trip. And the owners... they want to be babied. They want smaller MLE's? Why? Because they HAVE to pay them? Nobody had a gun to the Rockets' head when they signed Swift. Burn! Let it burn. The league needs change. Football FTW.
No side wins my vote. It sucks what they're doing, and in the face of how the economy is going, the longer this goes, the more likely they are going to be to tear it all down and start arguing over how to split less money than before. And it will be their own fault. I love to watch NBA basketball, and I love the Rockets, but watching them threaten to take it from us because they can't decide who should be richest make me wanna tell them to stick it.
Long-term earnings. If the players budge here, it's gonna be hard to get the share back. It's worth a season or two rather than guarantee a loss in earnings for the indefinite future. A season will eventually come and what's important is, when it does, their clients still have the lion's share.
I totally agree with you. I think the players are taking too much and the owners try too squeeze every dime they can out of fans. The players take too big of a cut, it needs to be smaller than some 56% and the owners only care about $$ as well. I know it's a business but drop the concession prices and keep the ticket prices reasonable. I then be more willing to go to the game with my family, instilling the love of the game in a younger generation. Make all you want on merchandise, keep your suites and front row seats high, but the concessions kill families.
Couldn't agree more. The current cap structure in the NBA does not promote parity and that's what the NBA needs. If players like Wade think they deserve $50MM don't put a cap on individual player salaries at let them eat up %90 of their teams pay roll and lose for the rest of their careers.
This. I almost want the season to be lost just so that all these greedy bastards lose some money and maybe have to re-think things. ... but if I have to pick a side, I gotta go with the union in just a bout all of these debates. They're the ones who actually, you know, play the game.
