[NYDailyNews] NBA lockout coming closer to a reality every day as Las Vegas Summer Le

Winter is coming.

 

So next season no NFL and no NBA. Guess I will be watching a lot more ice skating.

 

well that sucks. I was looking forward to a trip to see our guys in Vegas this summer

 

I weathered the NHL lockout.... it was not fun.

Time to buckle down.

 

The NBA is walking down a dark path. A lot of Fans, like me, are tired with how ridiculous Stern's league has become, from the officiating to the decision to the "super teams".
Miss another 30 games like in 1998-1999 and this league will be surpassed by the NHL.

maybe Stern could eliminate every team except New York, La and Miami, have those teams play each other for 24 straight weeks.

I'll miss our rockets that's for sure. =(

 

It is a very fine line between being an NBA addict and having the NBA become background noise. The NBA is about to walk that line in my mind.

 

I just can't see that happening at all.

 

Well this is why a lot of the guys projected to go in the lottery are going back to college.

It would suck to miss a whole season. Also didn't Jason Kidd say he would retire if there was a lockout?

 

Greed, for lack of a better term, is good.

 

You could watch this...

 

1. There is no way in hell the NHL is more lucrative, no matter how you cook the books, than the NBA in the next 15 years.

2. Hate Stern all you want, but you listed three reasons, none of which are a direct result of his actions, and two of which are the same reason. Poor argument for an easy kill. You got your free post though.

 

NHL will definitely over the WNBA


I have hope that the NFL will come back, with only 2 games lost (14 game schedule). When you boil it all down, the owners simply wanted to slip a bigger piece of the pie out of greed. There isn't a serious gulf between them, the owners were simply caught off guard that the players connected on several haymakers in the process. It's all about face now.

The NBA, on the other hand.....there is going to be a serious reckoning. Unlike the NFL, a solid third of the teams are in DIRE straits and keeping the doors open off of multimillion lines of credit. Indy, NO, Cha, and Minny are really close to insolvency.

Leonosis (Was) and Kroenke (Den) are leading the charge for modeling the league after the NHL, because they both are NHL guys. TONS of owners are fully on board because they're either drowning in red ink or are small markets wanting to protect themselves. You've only got a handful of guys (Dolan, Cuban, Buss, etc) who enjoy a financial advantage in a luxury tax environment.

I don't think fans appreciate how hard the players are going to fight against a hard cap.
1) It ends the era of guaranteed contracts, the biggest feather in their CBA cap
2) It will almost certainly knock down total player earnings in a significant way (well over half the league spent above the cap this year)

I'm not saying these are bad things....but expect the players to hold out in a BIG way....and the owners to do likewise. This is critical issue on both sides and they won't come to an agreement anytime soon.

 

BOOM! Very interesting statement. I could fall into that category. If the NBA went away for a year, I might never return to this level of "fanhood". In fact, put it in the bank.

It would be very dangerous for the league if people learned to live without it.

 

OH GOD NOOOOOOOOOO!