NBA Lockout!!!! WWBD?

[inc-pankz]

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Gi mingaw na gani ko sa istorya (Basketball) mao ni hapit sako. Unsa pa kaha may lockout..

pankz, basaha daw ang naa sa first page na gisulat ni FAQ nag suggest man to siya unsa ato himuon pag naay lockout.
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colby: he suggested to bandwagon at azkals?football? . if thats so, wakoy ma comment, hehe all i know, is that when mka goal sila, theyll scream at the top of there lungs.. hehehe

oh btw. .whats with revenue? etc. etc. .

NO LOCK OUT PLEASE

[nijazared]

Let's all hope both side come to terms tomorrow(US time) sayang kaayo if ma lock out na sad and ma delay...ayos na kaayo ang momentum sa NBA!

[colby]

The end is near: NBA owners, players spiral toward lockout

By Brian T. Smith

The Salt Lake Tribune
First published 54 minutes ago
Updated 9 minutes ago Updated Jun 29, 2011 07:17PM

NBA commissioner David Stern sees a deep, dark abyss. An unfathomable gulf that will erase every gain the league has made as it has approached heights not reached since Michael Jordan left the game for good.

Billy Hunter, NBA Players Association (NBPA) executive director, envisions total destruction and loss. Lost money, power, presence and prestige.

The sharply divided duo are not just united by their Armageddon-like visions. Each understands that an NBA lockout is just hours away from becoming a reality. And both believe that their firmly entrenched side is not going to give until the other first relents.

Owners and players are scheduled to meet Thursday in New York for what could be their final conference before the league enters its first work stoppage since the 1998-99 season.

An extension in negotiations is possible. But few believe that one more week of talks will make much difference, since the warring sides have spent nearly two years disagreeing about a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA), and the current one expires at 10:01 Mountain Time on Thursday night.

The end is near.

The 2011 NBA lockout is about to begin.

“Best case is they try to extend [talks], but I don’t think that’s likely,” said Gabe Feldman, Tulane law professor and director of the school’s sports law program. “I think we’re headed probably to a similar path that we saw with the NFL, in terms of a lockout and potential litigation.”

for more: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/jazz/52...eague.html.csp

I'm not sure to the other fans here, me when lockout happens I'll be watching Arsenal FC and Barca and lots of tennis.

And yes lots of college basketball!!! Perry Jones, Jared Sullinger, Harrison Barnes, Terrence Jones, Marquis Teague and Austin Rivers, just to name a few!!! Excited for college basketball to begin!!!!

[FAQ]

I'm not sure to the other fans here, me when lockout happens I'll be watching Arsenal FC and Barca and lots of tennis.

And yes lots of college basketball!!! Perry Jones, Jared Sullinger, Harrison Barnes, Terrence Jones, Marquis Teague and Austin Rivers, just to name a few!!! Excited for college basketball to begin!!!!

I have my beloved HABS to watch and cheer !!

I don't know about other "fans" here though ... Looks like they only watch NBA - weird knowing they are "basketball fans" .

[fish]

ako, ok ra kaayo ko walay NBA season... pero mas maayo kung naa, para lingaw ang mga tawo. hehehe! i am for the benefit of the many, which is to have a season. pero kung walay basketball karon nga year, daghan pa man kog sports nga pwede matan-aw. hehehe!

[FAQ]

Lockout is official . My friend just broke the news on FAN 590 .

NEW YORK—Union chief Billy Hunter says “it’s obvious the lockout will happen tonight” after players and owners failed to reach a new collective bargaining agreement, potentially putting the 2011-12 season in jeopardy.

Despite a three-hour meeting Thursday, the sides could not close the enormous gap that remained in their positions.

“The gap is too great,” Hunter said.

The CBA expires at midnight, after which all league business is officially on hold, starting with the free agency period that would have opened Friday.

Hunter said he hoped the two sides would meet again in the next two weeks.

SOURCE: No deal: NBA players to be locked out at midnight - thestar.com

[Jantehshiznit]

Lockout jud.

IMO, the Players should give in. they're taking a lot of money.

The BRI Split: Make it 50-50?
It's currently 57-43, players. The league started with a 61-39 proposal for the owners. Neither is tenable. So, once again, I argue for the simplest concept that any kindergardner can understand: 50-50.
The NBA generates around $4.3 billion annually. All of that $4.3 billion isn't included in BRI, so let's say for the sake of argument that the BRI number is $4 billion. Under the current system, the players get 57 percent of that, or $2.28 billion, with the owners getting the other $1.72 billion. Owners are proposing taking an additional $900 million off the top, and then splitting the rest 50-50, arguing that their 43 percent of BRI is reduced by interest payments, depreciation of assets, taxes and amortization (all known by the business acronym IBIDA), and is reduced further when their operating expenses are eaten up by paying their staffs, turning the lights on in their buildings, etc. -- while players' expenses are far less. That $900 million also gibes nicely with the approximately $1.1 billion the league claims it has lost since 2008, a figure strongly disputed by the union.

There's no reason the players should have to take almost a billion out of their pockets to pay for the impact of a global recession.


Totally agree on this. i dont know why the players are so arrogant on giving in some $ infact they're the ones should be happy that they are paid millions. the owners ofc wont continue doing business if they are really losing. afte rall, Sports is business.

[colby]

NBA LOCKOUT!!!

The lockout will commence at 12:01 EDT on Friday, after the expiration of the current deal that owners say has cost them millions of dollars a year.

Despite a three-hour meeting today and a final proposal from the players — which NBA leaders said would have raised average player salaries to $7 million in the sixth year of the deal — the sides could not close the enormous gulf between their positions.

The last lockout reduced the 1998-99 season to just a 50-game schedule, the only time the NBA missed games for a work stoppage. Hunter said it's too early to be concerned about that.

"I hope it doesn't come down to that," he said. "Obviously, the clock is now running with regard to whether or not there will or will be a loss of games, and so I'm hoping that over the next month or so that there will be sort of a softening on their side and maybe we have to soften our position as well."

Hunter (union chief) said he hopes the two sides will meet again in the next two weeks.

The players' association seems unlikely, at least for now, to follow the NFLPA's model by decertifying and taking the battle into the court system, instead choosing to continue negotiations. Hunter said last week he felt owners believe the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis, which is debating the legality of the NFL's lockout, will uphold employers' rights to impose lockouts.

"We'll just continue to ask our fans to stick with us and remain patient with us. As players we want to play. That's who we are; we're basketball players," Lakers guard and union president Derek Fisher said. "Right now we're faced with dealing with the business aspect of our game. We're going to do it the same way we play basketball. We're going to work hard. We're going to be focused. We're going to be dedicated to getting the results that we want."

for more: NBA lockout: League to lock out players at midnight | NJ.com
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It's a great article and there are still positive notes naman. It doesn't mean that when the NBA LOCKOUT will be official, we will not going to have a season this year, or that game will be reduced just like the last lockout. Reading from the said article both parties is hopeful that they will continue to work in the following weeks until it is resolve.

[doi]

samoka jud ani oi.. una ang NFL karon NBA napud, ka hangul rajud ning mga tawhana oi...

[fish]

the NBA players union should just create a mini league of some sorts, para maka-kwarta to mga gagmayg sweldo nga mga players, then ma-keep in shape pa sila... hehehe! pasuya sa mga owners ba. naa ra gihapn mga media mo-cover ana for sure.