NBA Lockout and Collective Bargaining Agreement Discussion

[da ThRONe]

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Once again I realize the old BRI and system needs to be redone or at the least revamped. What I am saying is the league should be looking for non-revenue consessions to give to the players to compensate for all the revenue/system related changes they are making. Isn't that how negotations work?

If the owners were giving the players things not in the previous CBA in return and the players were still playing hardball I would be calling them out. It's hard for me to call out the group getting nothing out of the new CBA that they didn't have in the previous one.

[King_B_Mack]

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I didnt tell powe to shut up in those terms but I think in light that he needs to at least not sound like he only went to school up til the 6th grade before talking about what should be paid to him

..and 24th yeah Dice came in here mad because WTF told Powe to shut up (where i responded let him talk please lol), then put up a Steve Nash quote and asked if that was rebukable also? Its really not that serious...

Goodness man, its not like people are telling every player to shut up, some are saying some things that are making the owners looking like the good guys because they sound so freaking dumb, thats the problem,and the public perception is further in the toilet every time they say something outlandish and dumb

Okay, I can get that. However this is Twitter, it seems pointless to bitch about bad grammar on Twitter and texting and whatnot. People get out messages in shorthand. Do I personally like that form of communication? Not really, but we're going to really go in on someone over Twitter? I miss words while typing out stuff on here all the time, doesn't mean I'm an idiot or uneducated. Most of the time these dudes are tweeting from they're phones anyway so it's even easier to skip a puncuation mark or word in the sentence. I don't know, just don't seem right.

[The 24th Letter]

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so now its about the grammar of the message, lol, cool

nobodys mad at WTF man, hes not the only one that said that or something like it....and I apologize to WTF of he thought I was attacking him...
Even though Dice agreed with me, he kindve lost my original point, lol

i already explained my position on this twice now...so I dont want to keep beating a dead Sarah Jessica Parker.

[WTF]

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I was worried somebody was mad at me... lol

I'm just fed up with the whole situation. Keep your comments out of public. You're in mediation. The Players Assoc needs to start fining guys, just like Stern would do with the owners. If you want to spout off AFTER a deal gets done... so be it. But right now you're just adding fuel to the fire.

[OSUFan_88]

It's not about grammar at all. It's about a dude who hasn't played basketball for 2 years saying he doesn't mind if they miss a year. Of course he doesn't mind, Powe cannot play anyway because his knees are shot.

[tehova]

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Revenue sharing day - aka Christmas in Memphis



Lets get this paper - *rich boi voice*

[aholbert32]

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Ok enough about Powe. LOL.

This is where we currently stand: 3 of the five issues are settled or close to being settled:

BRI: 49-51% band was tentatively agreed upon.
Revenue Sharing: Owners have agreed to a system
Midlevel: Shortened the years.

Whats left is the Bird Exception and the Luxury Tax. Today's meeting starts at 2 and I expect it to be another all nighter. Lets see if they can get it done over the next 2 days.

[Mintsa]

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^^^^^

Hopefully so.....

And if they do agree on something in the next few days. Maybe the NBA will use the "secret schedule" (as reported by ESPN i think ?) they have to start the season in December and still have a full 82 games.

[aholbert32]

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^^^^^

Hopefully so.....

And if they do agree on something in the next few days. Maybe the NBA will use the "secret schedule" (as reported by ESPN i think ?) they have to start the season in December and still have a full 82 games.

82 games is gone. Stern confirmed that. I think if they get a deal done in the next 7-10 days, the schedule starts Dec 1.

[The 24th Letter]

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I didnt know those were agreed upon...mustve lost it in the Powe talk, lol

seems like the "big boys" are pretty much taken care of then? or am I wrong?

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Yeah I didn't know they agreed to some of those things either unless this was something that happened in the last few days?

[aholbert32]

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I didnt know those were agreed upon...mustve lost it in the Powe talk, lol

seems like the "big boys" are pretty much taken care of then? or am I wrong?

Nope the big boys are the Luxury tax and bird exception.

[aholbert32]

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Yeah I didn't know they agreed to some of those things either unless this was something that happened in the last few days?

Mid level was agreed upon last week.

The BRI is practically done. The NBA formally offered a band of 49%-51% depending on revenues. Sources say that the Union may counter with a slightly higher ban but that this issue is practically done.

Revenue sharing was finalized last night in the NBA owners meeting.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Well damn lol

Well ****, get this damn thing done now so I can get my man Deron back in the states and so we can get back to actually talking about Basketball on here and not BRIs and all that other nonsense lol.

[The 24th Letter]

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amen to that....