Comments on: NBA agents are pessimistic about quick end to lockout

By: Kurt Helin

Kurt Helin — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:02:10 +0000

For the record, agents could not drive up the price of players overall to the league (just individual players). The players get 57 percent of the league’s gross revenue regardless (the league keeps 8% of all checks from players then returns whatever portion brings the league overall level to 57 percent). The players are a fixed cost. The league knows that 57 percent of revenue goes to players. Agents cannot change that. Where spending has increased is what is spent on coaches, marketing and things outside of the players.

By: fatcatt

fatcatt — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 06:23:47 +0000

I really have no sympathy for them. These guys are like real estate agents in this country in the ’90′s and 2000′s. They drove up prices to make a bigger profit, when in reality the worth of the product was not what they said it was. And hence forced the haves and have nots. Those who could afford a Beachfront home, those that could not…but good, they deserve whatever they get or dont get out o this.

By: goforthanddie

goforthanddie — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 20:32:45 +0000

Agents are just as responsible for this mess as owners/players.