David Stern on the BS Report
Talking lock-out, of course, but also talking lots of interesting NBA business stuff.
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arjoseph
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While much of this looks a bit scary...
I do see one very good point in here that may end up saving the day in the end. The fact (assuming it’s true) that the owners are ready to do something in the way of revenue sharing is a huge plus. If revenue sharing was not even being considered, the NBA would have way too much work to do to make the league truly profitable. The players are still going to have to concede something. Also, contraction would not be the worst idea in the world. It would make the league more competitive and if you could get rid of even the three worst financial sinkholes, that alone would help the league get much closer to profitability.
"Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one." - Bob Knight
contraction draft sounds fun.
or would they all just become free agents?
by obnoxious american on Aug 14, 2011 5:29 PM CDT up reply actions
probably hold a draft.
Hornets/Kings/etc. No shooting guard in there (Bulls would be way low on the draft ladder) so doesn’t help the Bulls.
Let us cavort like the Greeks of old! You know the ones I mean.
by hedonism bot on Aug 16, 2011 12:46 AM CDT up reply actions
I disagree
Contraction may not be the worst thing in the world, but it’s one of the worst possible outcomes from this. X
Short of missing a whole season, it would probably be the worst.
Pat Riley is the devil.
by Poloplaya14 on Aug 14, 2011 8:08 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
never!
i’m going to keep looking at it!
Let us cavort like the Greeks of old! You know the ones I mean.
by hedonism bot on Aug 16, 2011 12:46 AM CDT up reply actions
Why is it that bad?
I get how it would be bad for the Bulls since they are already competitors, but…
Bad teams are bad for basketball. Bad teams draw poor attendance numbers for 41 home games and many of their road games. Consider this: there have been 30 sub .200 seasons in the NBA (read: terrible, awful, ridiculously bad seasons). 16 of the thirty came in the past 15 years, after the NBA expanded from 26 to 28 and then to 30 teams. I don’t think it’s a shock that most of these seasons came in the short time that the NBA had a large era of expansion.
Maybe I am not well-versed enough to know how this would be bad for the league.
"Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one." - Bob Knight
The players have boxed themselves in
The players want the owners to exclude basketball related expenses like arena improvements from basketball related income according to Stern. These expenses, the players claim, produces the losses the owners have taken. What are the owners to do? Simply not count them?
The trajectory of players share of BRI is on course to end the NBA. Contracting teams isn’t going to resolve that situation.
If the owners arguments are a joke, the players can merely coalesce to them now and add triggers in the contract that allow player salaries to grow at the pace they want if BRI does not increase like the players think it will.
I can predict the future using Norm Van Lier's crystal balls.
"Sam has a tendency to denigrate reports coming from any reporter who didn’t also cover the day Naismith first put up the peach baskets." - snley
by NBA Observer on Aug 18, 2011 8:06 AM CDT up reply actions
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