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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, 01:19 PM   #31
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Last NBA game I watched was JAZZ VS. Bulls when Malone and Stockton were playing...
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Old 09-29-2011, 01:20 PM   #32
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Old 09-29-2011, 01:20 PM   #33
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Old 09-29-2011, 01:20 PM   #34
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Last NBA game I watched was JAZZ VS. Bulls when Malone and Stockton were playing...
The last of the golden days, right before the NBA died.
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Old 09-29-2011, 01:22 PM   #35
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Last NBA game I watched was JAZZ VS. Bulls when Malone and Stockton were playing...
You've been missing a lot of good players then.


I won't really miss the NBA until the NFL playoffs start to wrap up.
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Old 09-29-2011, 01:24 PM   #36
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If the Thunder had come to KC instead of OKC, I think a lot of people here would feel differently about the NBA.

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Old 09-29-2011, 01:24 PM   #37
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Old 09-29-2011, 01:26 PM   #38
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I actually got into the NBA last year after attending my first live game in about 7 years, Thunder vs. T-Wolves. My friend had been trying to turn me into a Thunder fan & going to the game really kinda opened my eyes and made me enjoy the game quite a bit more (in large part because I had a team to cheer for).

That said, I'm not going to freak out if there's a season. Hockey & football can keep me entertained during most/all of that time. Plus, if this changes the way free agency is done (big name FAs essentially holding their teams hostage, owners having problems making profits, etc.), I'd be more than fine with it.

In short, it won't bother me too much, but I'll apparently miss it more than most in this thread.
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Old 09-29-2011, 01:28 PM   #39
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The last of the golden days, right before the NBA died.
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.
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Old 09-29-2011, 01:28 PM   #40
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College basketball is so much better than the NBA.
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Old 09-29-2011, 01:28 PM   #41
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The last of the golden days, right before the NBA died.
lol that is crazy. They had one of their more successful seasons this past year.
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Old 09-29-2011, 01:28 PM   #42
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they shut hockey down in '05? guess I'd feel the same way about the NBA. I figure I have football till february. Then college basketball till April, then Baseball starts and lasts for 4 weeks until the NFL Draft. Then football again. Plan a fishing trip in late June, and wala, made it through the year.
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Old 09-29-2011, 01:30 PM   #44
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The same way I react to any NBA season:
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In fact I'd like to see the NBA go away completely so the one-and-done in college hoops would end.
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Old 09-29-2011, 01:30 PM   #45
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College basketball is so much better than the NBA.
Have you even watched an NBA game?
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