NBA Lockout and Collective Bargaining Agreement Discussion

[ProfessaPackMan]

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I think this is the first time during this whole thing where I honestly think: its over. kiss the season goodbye.

a plague on both your houses.

It's funny because I was just on Youtube watching those homemade mini movies of the Mavs-Heat Finals(which was good BTW)and as I was watching that, for some reason I became more optimistic in that something would get done in the next few days.

And then I come to OS and I see this thread has grown another 2-3 pages so at first I'm thinking "Ok, something got done" until I scroll down and see that talks have broke down. For the first time in this whole thing, I felt like I was caught off guard because I wasn't expecting to see that SMH.

At this point, they might as well just cancel the season because taking a few days off and then meeting back up is obviously not going to change either side's stance on it so **** it.

[TheMatrix31]

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"Hunter says players won't accept the 50-50 split until players know what the system -- lux tax, exceptions -- looks like."


Then you have all these idiots claiming 50/50 wasn't even on the table, etc.

The PLAYERS are liars.

[aholbert32]

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Fisher and Hunter just contradicted each other. Fisher said they did not walk away. Hunter just said that they decided to walk away once the owners demanded the 50% band offer.

[Marino]

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Just Billionaires fighting Millionaires. The NHL system seems like it will happen regardless of what the Players Union wants.

It'll take a while for the fans to come back after such a long break.

**** both sides.

[l3ulvl]

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Man this thread is hard to keep up with, but I don't want to miss anything because the discussion is so good.

[The 24th Letter]

whats said by the players in the room > twitter

but both sides are lying on some things

[Marino]

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Lol @ Gilbert...."trust my gut"

owners wont talk about the system if the 50/50 isnt agreed to...

Why should they?

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Hunter talking. Repeating that he always knew that the owners don't want to negotiate. He claims that Stern promised Leonsis and other owners that there would be a NHL style cap. Says that the NHL system is a hard cap.

- Players offered a 50-53 band yesterday.

Sounds familiar because I remember Leonsis bringing this up over the summer talking to 980 but then he had to cut it short because he wasn't supposed to be talking about it anyway. So I believe Hunter in this regard.

[aholbert32]

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Hunter is filibustering. He hasn't been asked a question yet and we are 15 minutes in. He's also letting ALL of the behind the scenes stuff out. People killed Stern for leaking the 50/50 2 weeks ago. Lets see if people say the same about Hunter.

[OSUFan_88]

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Billy keeps repeating the same thing over and over.

Sounds like a liar. A very bad liar.

[TheMatrix31]

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Hunter is filibustering. He hasn't been asked a question yet and we are 15 minutes in. He's also letting ALL of the behind the scenes stuff out. People killed Stern for leaking the 50/50 2 weeks ago. Lets see if people say the same about Hunter.

Of course not. Because Hunter is the leader of the oppressed players.

[aholbert32]

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Chris Paul's face was hilarious when Hunter pledged he was telling the truth. He almost laughed.

[The 24th Letter]

Sounds familiar because I remember Leonsis bringing this up over the summer talking to 980 but then he had to cut it short because he wasn't supposed to be talking about it anyway. So I believe Hunter in this regard.

I remember this as well...

[Marino]

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This He Said/She Said bull**** is really old now. **** both sides. Way to **** this up after you had one of your best seasons ever.

[J_Posse]

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Sounds familiar because I remember Leonsis bringing this up over the summer talking to 980 but then he had to cut it short because he wasn't supposed to be talking about it anyway. So I believe Hunter in this regard.

Yeah, its been well known that Ted and the other NHL team owning owners want a system similar to hockey. I just didn't think their were enough of them and that he would jeopardize his brand/league to do it. Well, guess I was wrong.