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Old 09-29-2011, 12:55 PM  
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How will you react if the NBA cancels its season?
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It doesn’t necessarily matter what NBA commissioner David Stern meant when he said on Wednesday that the upcoming weekend of negotiations between players and the league would determine “whether they can either have a season or not have a season.” Maybe it was a threat, as it sure seemed to be—a grand warning that if they did not accede to a deal, players would miss out on an entire year of salary. But the league is insisting it was not a threat, so maybe it wasn’t.

It’s not really important, though, because we don’t need any pronouncements from Stern to notice that the pages are slipping away on the NBA’s calendar, and with both sides reporting on Wednesday that no progress had been made, at the very least, the beginning of the season is in jeopardy.


The sides will meet again on Friday, and considering it will take about two weeks to iron out the details of a collective bargaining agreement, it’s clear that without significant movement this weekend, the season won’t start on time on Nov. 1. During the 1998 lockout, the league started canceling regular-season games on October 13, and that timeline should hold up this time around.

Canceling the season is still an option, but it’s on the back-burner. There are some who believe that once some games are missed, owners will be willing to axe the whole season, as the NHL did in ’05. But bear in mind, losing an entire season would not just be a hit to the players. It would be a big hit to the owners, too. There is a provision in the league’s television contract that pays the league even in the event of lost games, something that surely increases the owners’ bargaining power in the early stages of a lockout. Owners will still be feeding from their deepest trough, while players miss paychecks.

There is a catch, though—if the entire season is canceled, the owners will have to return the television money, plus interest. The threat of the season being canceled can be arrived at just by looking at the calendar and noting the lack of progress the two sides have made. But there would be no point to a preemptive canceling of the season on Stern’s part.

SI.com’s Sam Amick reports that Stern has laid out a Jan. 7 drop-dead date for cancellation of the season. That was the same deadline in ’99, when a scattered and shortened 50-game season began on February 5—with very negative results. Attendance fell by 2.2 percent, television ratings fell sharply and NBA Finals ratings went from 18.7 to 11.3. That was largely because of the retirement of Michael Jordan and the breakup of the Bulls, but still, it took a long time for the NBA to recover its popularity.

The league last season regained its relevance among fans. Players have a lot at stake in the case of a canceled season. But while owners might be in a better financial position to withstand a long lockout, they saw the NBA finally climb out of its post-Jordan doldrums, and they have a lot at stake here, too.

A canceled season is still a possibility. But we’re a long way from that point.
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Old 09-29-2011, 01:32 PM   #46
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Old 09-29-2011, 01:33 PM   #47
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I know a lot of people stopped watching the NBA after Jordan retired, but I'd say the league has more talent now than it did then (especially young talent). The NBA was watered down during the Bulls dynasty. And this is coming from a huge Bulls fan.

Obviously, I'm in the minority here, but I'd pretty pissed if the season was cancelled.
The talent back then was much better.
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Old 09-29-2011, 01:34 PM   #48
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Have you even watched an NBA game?
Yes I have. Boring offenses with individual playmaking and little ball movement. Team defense does not even exist for the most part. Give me a college game with unique offenses, crowds that get into games and don't sit on their hands, and the crazy ups and downs of various national programs.
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Old 09-29-2011, 01:35 PM   #49
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Yes I have. Boring offenses with individual playmaking and little ball movement. Team defense does not even exist for the most part. Give me a college game with unique offenses, crowds that get into games and don't sit on their hands, and the crazy ups and downs of various national programs.
Give me the best basketball players in the world.
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You can have them. As you can see in this thread, most of us don't give a shit.
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Old 09-29-2011, 01:40 PM   #52
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It would devastate me. I'm handling it well for now because I accepted last year that at least half the season would be cancelled.

But if the whole season is lost then it would really tear me up.
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Old 09-29-2011, 01:40 PM   #53
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I will probably watch more College games, maybe try to get the MIAA games to watch missouri western griffons. I love the league.
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Correction--Guess I am looking at it from a more TV observer of the sport though. Give me college games to watch all day, not NBA games. I suppose an NBA game is better than going to many college basketball games since at many programs there isn't a consistently developed program but give me the top 10 college basketball programs in the nation and I would gladly attend that game over the top NBA teams every day of the week.
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Yes I have. Boring offenses with individual playmaking and little ball movement. Team defense does not even exist for the most part. Give me a college game with unique offenses, crowds that get into games and don't sit on their hands, and the crazy ups and downs of various national programs.
Then you need to have your eyes examined.
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The NBA was kind of fun, back when you could follow a player through his college days, then through the NBA. HS players straight to the NBA screws all of that up. Who?

But I have never understood how someone could watch a whole NBA game, unless being personally vested. Friend or family of a player? Money bet on the game?

Granted, being floor level at an NBA game gives you real perspective of just how big, fast and talented these guys are.

But on TV, I will be snoring in about 4 minutes, not "game clock" 4 minutes either.
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College basketball is so much better than the NBA.
The NBA has jaw-dropping talent.... but, the whining, flopping, turning the game into a foul-drawing contest, etc; are a few reasons I prefer CBB. One moment, LeBron is making a ridiculous shot, then the next moment he's jerking his head back to draw a foul or crying after missing a shot because the guy 3 feet away from him obviously fouled him.

That said, outside of the crying, the playoffs did seem better this year than in the past.
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You can have them. As you can see in this thread, most of us don't give a shit.
I understand that the NBA isn't the average middle class cup of tea, but I don't understand why it's treated like the MLS around here.
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