NBA Lockout!!!! WWBD?

[fish]

i'm hoping for a settlement sa kaso nga gipasaka sa mga players. hopefully makasugod na ang NBA after christmas.

[endlessknight]

Naa man sad pre-emptive lawsuit ang mga owners. I think that the players have shot themselves in the foot. They say that it was a unanimous vote among the players but Kevin Martin is saying that he didn't get to vote.

[ming_li]

unsa man ila pre-emptive lawsuit bro? Kevin Martin alone? unanimous vote jud d i hehehe

[endlessknight]

The vote was done only by the union leaders daw, according to some players. But it doesn't matter now. We all lose.

[SantosJB]

all we can do is wait and hope that this lock out ends ASAP.

[ming_li]

mao jud.. sugod na c DURANT ug explore overseas na... pasabot na jud na good bye 2011-12 season na..

[endlessknight]

Well, one major personality who has failed to deliver is Stern.

[groogie75]

Well, Stern works for the owners.

[endlessknight]

Stern's hard line approach doesn't really work. A little flexibility would have gone a long way.

[fish]

Chris Broussard, ESPN The Magazine: The players, tired of making concession after concession after concession, are finally saying enough. The owners claim to be losing $300 million a year and the players have agreed to give that much back by going from 57 percent of BRI to 50 percent. On top of that, the system concessions the players have made should help the owners make more money.

Yet several of the owners want even more. The group of owners that was disgruntled with the 50/50 offer is growing and powerful, and when the players rejected the deal, those owners were only emboldened. What's worse is that whenever negotiations do resume, the players will not be looking to begin discussions at 50/50. Believing their antitrust lawsuit gives them a bit of leverage, they'll be looking to start anew and get a much better deal than the last one they nearly accepted.