These owners are dumber than men who marry women without prenups (I don’t know how to spell it because I’m not married). How about sign guys to deals that prevent buyouts because the players will be told that their money is not work free?

One-year deals are not bad because max contracts are not mandatory and the salaries for the season don’t have to be cheap! They can fit with the capspace!

This statement should be resonate with fans because players like Andre Iguodala, Drew Gooden, and Jerome James are obvious examples of players who are overpaid because they were never worth theie respective total dollars or contractual lengths.

The owners can actually prevent a lockout and work with the current CBA staying in place if they put their feet down during free agency negotiations. Instead of getting spin-doctored by agents they should just say “we owners have become financially strapped during the last several years and too many bad signings elsewhere have given us no choice but to take this route.”

Fans who see free agents signed or re-signed don’t care about the contractual lengths or dollar amounts if they know that they can help their teams. If these owners thought like fans and understood where we come from they wouldn’t be in buyout or failing CBA negotiations.

They have these mechanisms now… they’re called “player options”, “team options”, and “early termination options.”

You have to announce whether you’re exercising your option by a certain date or you lose it.

Just because teams aren’t using them doesn’t mean they can’t start doing so as Standard Operating Procedure.