NBA Lockout and Collective Bargaining Agreement Discussion

[ProfessaPackMan]

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You are right but missing 2 weeks or a month really doesnt hurt the NBA's momentum though. Most people dont care or know there is a lockout. If they start by Dec 1, they will be just fine.

Right NOW they don't care.

Will they care if/when it comes back? The Hardcores? Yes

The Casuals? Most likely not and why would they at this point?

[King_B_Mack]

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You are right but missing 2 weeks or a month really doesnt hurt the NBA's momentum though. Most people dont care or know there is a lockout. If they start by Dec 1, they will be just fine.

Little strong no? There's pretty much no chance that people don't know that there's a lockout in the NBA right now. If someone doesn't know, they aren't relevant because it means they don't watch sports at all, cause if they did, they'd have seen it on Sportscenter, they'd have heard the mention during an NFL game, or in the newspaper or mentioned on the sports segment of the local news. Don't care? Maybe, but if we're talking about how successful last season was for the league, then I'd like to think that someone besides hardcore hoop heads care. So that's a little more on point than saying most people don't even know what's going on.

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They know, they just dont care

[Altimus]

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I said it before the lockout, and I've said during. KG needs to be banned from all meetings.

Sources say Garnett was 'defiant, determined and downright ornery.'

As one league official said, “We were making progress, until Garnett [expletive] everything up.”

Regardless of how long the lockout lasts, it will be the players and not the owners that bring the NBA positive publicity again after the labor dispute is settled.

"We can’t have completely poisoned waters here when this is over,” one front-office executive said. “Stern gets that, but I’m not sure all of our owners do. We have to have these guys on board, or where are we as a league?”

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Something tells me there's more to that story because I doubt KG is THE reason something didn't get done.

Did he help the situation? Probably not but I don't think he was the difference between a deal getting done.

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At this point though... giving the dudes a couple of days to work out something they couldnt in 2 years is funny

[WTF]

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Was that today? Or was that yesterday's meeting that KG was messing around in?

Why have one of the biggest chumps in the league be one of the biggest voices in the lockout negotiations? Dude needs to back away from the meetings and realize he's on his way out... be gracious for what the game has given him in his "prime" years. Can not stand the guy.

[Altimus]

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Something tells me there's more to that story because I doubt KG is THE reason something didn't get done.

Did he help the situation? Probably not but I don't think he was the difference between a deal getting done.

Most certainly not...

[aholbert32]

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Right NOW they don't care.

Will they care if/when it comes back? The Hardcores? Yes

The Casuals? Most likely not and why would they at this point?

Casuals pay attention to basketball in January/Feb. If there is basketball in December, the casuals wont care that the NBA missed a month.

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That was when they showed up in the meeting before the cancellation

Remember the one day only he was there lol

...and no KG wasnt the reason nothing changed

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Casuals pay attention to basketball in January/Feb. If there is basketball in December, the casuals wont care that the NBA missed a month.

Because they won't be watching at that time and they probably won't watch in January either seeing as how the NFL has things on lock from now til after the Super Bowl.

And why would they want to watch Basketball in January/February?

[aholbert32]

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Little strong no? There's pretty much no chance that people don't know that there's a lockout in the NBA right now. If someone doesn't know, they aren't relevant because it means they don't watch sports at all, cause if they did, they'd have seen it on Sportscenter, they'd have heard the mention during an NFL game, or in the newspaper or mentioned on the sports segment of the local news. Don't care? Maybe, but if we're talking about how successful last season was for the league, then I'd like to think that someone besides hardcore hoop heads care. So that's a little more on point than saying most people don't even know what's going on.

I strongly believe most people dont care. Look at this thread. Its the same 12 guys posting. The NFL thread was huge with people worrying about whether there would be preseason games. PRESEASON GAMES! We are missing NBA preseason games right now and no one cares. Most sports fans could give a crap if the season starts in November because they have fantasy football, the NFL, College Football, the NHL, Soccer, Boxing and the UFC to distract them.

I'm a huge NBA fan but if the lockout goes until '12 I'll be pissed but i'll adjust. I will just watch more football, college basketball and the UFC.

[aholbert32]

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Because they won't be watching at that time and they probably won't watch in January either seeing as how the NFL has things on lock from now til after the Super Bowl.

And why would they want to watch Basketball in January/February?

Once the playoffs begin and bowl season is over, people turn their attention to basketball. In January, most people's teams have been eliminated, no fantasy football and the ramp up begins for March Madness. January is the start.

[aholbert32]

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Was that today? Or was that yesterday's meeting that KG was messing around in?

Why have one of the biggest chumps in the league be one of the biggest voices in the lockout negotiations? Dude needs to back away from the meetings and realize he's on his way out... be gracious for what the game has given him in his "prime" years. Can not stand the guy.

That was the meeting from 2 weeks ago.

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Also, they half coast through the season anyway

Rules are softer..players dont live up to their pay and the NBA always has to either manufacture some drama or some fake rivalry that dies after the game that plays to try to garner interest

That model just doesnt work