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Old 09-29-2011, 12:55 PM   Topic Starter
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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, 12:56 PM   #2
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Old 10-11-2011, 02:30 PM   #3
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Old 10-11-2011, 02:56 PM   #4
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Who really gives a shit about the NBA?
Just about every large city in the US except for KC since you asked.

The NBA is wildly popular. There are several superstars in the league and people watch for various reasons. Like to watch superstars? Fine. Have a home team you watch? Great. Just want to see Lebron lose? You'll have lots of company.
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Old 10-11-2011, 03:01 PM   #5
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Just about every large city in the US except for KC since you asked.

The NBA is wildly popular. There are several superstars in the league and people watch for various reasons. Like to watch superstars? Fine. Have a home team you watch? Great. Just want to see Lebron lose? You'll have lots of company.
Do you like to see lots of traveling? Great. Do you only want rules enforced some of the time? Awesome. Do you want superstars to play by their own set of rules? Excellent.
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Old 10-11-2011, 03:13 PM   #6
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Do you like to see lots of traveling? Great. Do you only want rules enforced some of the time? Awesome. Do you want superstars to play by their own set of rules? Excellent.
Weak, misinformed stereotypes that just don't die held mostly by 40+ old men who long for the Jeff Hornaceks of the world and haven't watched since the Jordan era.

My favorite part was the superstars who play by their own set of rules. Seriously that bugs you? We're all here because we love the NFL. They invent rules based on superstars. See Tom Brady. If that bugs you, then you might want to rethink the NFL also.
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Old 10-11-2011, 03:51 PM   #7
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Do you like to see lots of traveling? Great. Do you only want rules enforced some of the time? Awesome. Do you want superstars to play by their own set of rules? Excellent.
Also simply not true.

Traveling is significantly less prevalent than holding in the NFL yet I still have to hear this crap.

Yeah, sometimes traveling goes uncalled - so does the phantom tag at 2b in baseball and so does holding on virtually every play in the NFL.

You really think there's a sport where superstars don't get the benefit of the doubt on calls? Give me a break.

The NBA is no worse than any sport in regards to any of the same old tired horseshit that people that haven't watched the NBA in 15 years love to spout off.
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Just about every large city in the US except for KC since you asked.

The NBA is wildly popular. There are several superstars in the league and people watch for various reasons. Like to watch superstars? Fine. Have a home team you watch? Great. Just want to see Lebron lose? You'll have lots of company.
thats why hockey has better attendance.
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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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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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