NBA Lockout!!!! WWBD?

[colby]

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Just an Update:

The NBA has canceled its Las Vegas summer league due to a potential lockout, sources tell Fox Sports Ohio.
If you didn't think the impending lockout was real, this should help it sink in. The NBA is in much worse shape financially than the NFL and getting a new CBA is going to be a long, brutal process. Without summer league, we won't get a chance to see how rookies adjust to stiffer competition. For example, it was painfully obvious after last year's games in Vegas that Evan Turner simply was not going to be productive as a rookie

So guys cherish this moment as there is a possibility there will be NO NBA next season!

"No decision has been made on summer leagues," NBA spokesman Tim Frank told ESPN.com on Wednesday. He declined to discuss the league's timetable for making a decision.

source: NBA: No decision yet on canceling summer league - ESPN

[cebugdev]

Billy Hunter said that "99% there will be a lockout" .. Substantial amount of players will file Chapter 12 if not committing suicide .. Lucky for them if the NBAPA would support them using some sort of players' emergency fund ... If so , NBA pensioners who heavily rely their living on pension might get affected as well ... Current all-stars will slack all day in their huge mansion and spend like a sailor , mediocre and the scrub players will seek employment in Europe or some country overseas that has decent bball league ... For college players , they'll continue playing bball at their school , screwing sorority girls , and still be the famous ones at their respective campus .. Livin the life, per se .

As for the bandwagoners -- NBA is closed , no games for next year and no heroes to watch so they could escape from their pathetic lives .. They will squeal with delight once the NBA will be on hiatus .. Don't worry , there's still PBA , PBL , MVBA , silly Smart Gilas , or barangay league to watch ...

Maybe next year's lockout could be a good opportunity for Lil' Pinoys shift to soccer and ditch basketball for good .. Ya think ??

ditch basketball for good?
I dont think so, i dont want to spend 2 hours of my life watching a scoreless, game with no standard of deciding who will win a game if score is tied.

Bandwagoners will end up watching barangay leagues , PBL , PBA , or Europe leagues . Or wear their fake jersey and shoes to sleep and dream that they can SLAM DUNK !! Looooooool ...

oh yeah coz, soccer fan boys are not bandwagoners? people only get interested in watching soccer during worldcup time. Not to mention your worship with European guys, that means something..

Luckily for us basketball fan, we have LOTS of options when i comes to basketball when NBA locks out,
You can find leagues everywhere, for soccer? the only thing close to soccer is balls sucking played by Italians..

[FAQ]

NBPA VP Maurice Evans: "Hard cap not going to happen"

National Basketball Players’ Association vice president Maurice Evans said players might be willing to relent on BRI, but do not intend to budge on a hard cap.

“In my opinion, the current deal we have now is actually working,” Evans said. “So if we can just work from there and try and figure out something that works for everybody… Again, we want to bargain with them. We don’t want to throw darts and say who is right and who is wrong. We just want to get a deal. There has to be some model that says this is how we do business and it’s consistent from here out. Tweak this, and work from there. Honestly, I don’t think there is anything more we can give and a hard cap is definitely not going to happen.”

The owners are also expected to push for reducing the length of guaranteed contracts, and limiting the guarantees on some deals, which Evans felt is unnecessary. “I don’t think there is nowhere to go from here,” he said. “Everything has gone down. We can’t continue to diminish the years of contracts. GMs and owners don’t have to sign players for those allotted number of years. We don’t need to self-govern them. Doesn’t make any sense.”

Evans said the NBA players couldn’t surrender the progress of previous generations with the next collective bargaining agreement. The union is ready for a lengthy fight. “We’re prepared and we’ve prepared for this for a long while. So are the owners. I hope no one has been preparing with malicious intent, to try and prove a point and be spiteful. We’re just trying to get a deal. We want basketball and we want football and we want all sports to be, because it’s a part of our culture and it’s a part of the values.”

SOURCE: Maurice Evans optimistic NBA can avoid lengthy lockout - Wizards Insider - The Washington Post

I see a long lockout coming !

[FAQ]

NBA proposes unique ‘franchise tag’ to union

The NBA proposed to the players’ union last month a version of the “franchise tag” that it wants to include in the next collective bargaining agreement, according to sources familiar with the matter.

The tag, however, would be very different from the NFL’s version, which allows a team to essentially block one of its free agents from entering the market by binding him to his incumbent team with a one-year contract that carries a high salary based on various parameters.


The system the league has presented would not work this way, according to sources. Instead, a team would be allowed to designate one player for preferential contractual treatment, including more overall money, more guaranteed money and at least one extra year on his contract. A player would have to agree to such a designation. It is designed to work as an incentive to get a player to remain with his team rather than as a roadblock to free agency, the sources said.

Take the situation between the Cavaliers and LeBron James one year ago. Under the league’s proposal, the Cavaliers would not have been able to unilaterally “tag” James a franchise player and bind him to the team for one more season. The Cavaliers would have been able to offer James various enticements he may not have been able to get from other teams, the sources said.

The NBA’s current collective bargaining agreement already gives incumbent teams such advantages when it comes to re-signing their own players. James and Chris Bosh both took less money to sign with the Heat than they could have received from the Cavs and Raptors, respectively. The idea behind the league’s new proposal would be to increase the gap between what teams can offer a “designated player” and what non-designated players can get on the open market.

Two caveats here:

1) Though the CBA expires on June 30, negotiations are really only starting to pick up. SI.com’s Sam Amick confirmed a report that commissioner David Stern and union executive director Billy Hunter have been meeting in person recently, and added that the two have future meetings scheduled over the next couple of weeks. That is a good sign, but we’re early in the process, and there are still many details to work out on how the “designated player” system would work.

2) The designated player is one small part of a larger proposal and must be considered as such, sources said. It exists within an overall plan that key members of the players’ union have said they do not like. It has been widely reported that the league wants to reduce the amount of revenue players receive (currently 57 percent of all basketball-related income); trim player salaries by as much as $800 million per year; cut the length and maximum value of player contracts; and slash the amount of money guaranteed to players in each contract.

Sources also said the league’s proposal would ban fully guaranteed contracts. All contracts would have limits on the amount of money a player would be guaranteed to receive, and those guarantees would decline during the life of each contract. In other words, a player making, say, $5 million per season over four years would actually be guaranteed less than $5 million in each of those four seasons — and the amount guaranteed would drop each season. The idea is for teams to be able to get out of undesirable contacts more easily and avoid ugly, Eddy Curry-style buyout talks.

It is within that kind of system in which you have to consider the league’s designated player idea. By cutting guaranteed money and contract lengths leaguewide, the overall proposal would make the benefits the designated player would receive more meaningful.

Would that be enough to keep free agents tied to small-market teams? It’s too early to say, just as it’s too early to say exactly what sort of “franchise tag”-style system, if any, the league will adopt. But this is the starting point, at least on paper, and it’s different in one crucial way from the NFL’s well-known system.

SOURCE: The Point Forward » Posts NBA proposes unique ‘franchise tag’ to union «

DEVELOPMENT : There'd be non-guaranteed contracts this time . Now we know the players don't like this proposal .

[groogie75]

wow! It's funny how copying and pasting articles makes you feel smarter.

[jambryl]

wow! It's funny how copying and pasting articles makes you feel smarter.

+100

Ahaha LOL!

[FAQ]

wow! It's funny how copying and pasting articles makes you feel smarter.

Jealous enough ? Too bad you don't know anything about basketball

[lunateec22]

wow! It's funny how copying and pasting articles makes you feel smarter.

Now come on. Di man siguro ing-ana bro. He's citing sources, which is a good thing... pero if a commenter disposes smart*** lines then diha na siguro ma-consider na he thinks he's smarter. FAQ doesn't really do that... right?

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NBA commissioner David Stern and National Basketball Players Association executive director Billy Hunter have been meeting face-to-face to negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement, sources close to the talks told ESPN.com on Tuesday.

"Unfortunately, the proposal is very similar to the proposal the league submitted over a year ago," union president Derek Fisher told ESPN.com's Chris Sheridan and Chris Broussard. "This last proposal doesn't look close to what we were expecting."

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Murag wa pa man jd padulngan ang CBA karon.

[pranchiz]

Let's enjoy the playoffs and see you all in the 2012-2013 season

NBA proposes $45 million hard salary cap

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[Hammer_and_Sickle]

agoy ka dha,...tsk,tsk..