Comments on: There are NBA owners who need next season to happen

By: Kurt Helin

Kurt Helin — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 23:10:21 +0000

The clock on contracts keeps running during the lockout, the players just are not paid. So, in theory, if you had one year left on your deal covering next season and the entire season is lost to the lockout, you would become a free agent when the lockout ends.

By: accfanto

accfanto — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:40:51 +0000

Why is it that all the national media can do is blather on about the same few teams and their needs. There are 29 teams that don’t have Wade and his merry band, why do they really care that the clock is running on those three?

When the season was on, that’s all the media could talk about. The Big 3. I, for one, am enjoying a break from the big 3.

By: savocabol1

savocabol1 — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:31:32 +0000

Right, because these guys are all going to be sitting on their couches blogging and planking for the entire year instead of working out. Right.

By: ac0117

ac0117 — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:11:26 +0000

Yeah because a year of rust and age on the treads is good for all of those teams

By: craigw24

craigw24 — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:21:20 +0000

You seem to feel the owners are the aggrieved party in this negotiation. The players were forced to accept the owners terms in 1998 and they made some headway in the next CBA, however, now people think they should just knuckle under because they make a lot of money and don’t own the team. Take a look at labor history in this country. It is not a pretty story – on either side. However, it is the owners who have had the most to do with creating unions in their midst, due to their greed and desire for monopoly. This is no less true today, with the current NBA owners.

First they need to get their own house in order – solve the revenue sharing issues among themselves. Only after they finish this bit of business can they honestly come at the players and request the concessions that the players are going to inevitably have to give up.

Since we don’t like the players earning so much as a group, should we then say the owners should have this or any increasing revenue from future tv deals? The total revenue pie is determined by the demands of us fans – tv rights, merchandise sales, stadium attendance, etc. Whatever it is the union and owners have to figure out how to split that up. If that is too much money, then I suggest we fans should just stop supporting these products, not blame the players or owners for their salaries/profits.

By: SmackSaw

SmackSaw — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:14:01 +0000

Can Donald Sterling spend a full year not pursuing the draft lottery?

By: savocabol1

savocabol1 — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:12:24 +0000

“Does Mark Cuban and his band of merry veterans want to lose out on a full season?”
-Of course not, no one wants to lose a full season. You can insert any tean owner for Mark Cuban in your example. Not very insightful. In fact, a team that has been together awhile will not be hindered in a lockout due to the fact they know each other and their game so well.

“Can Jerry Buss lose a season while Kobe Bryant gets a year older? Can the Celtics spend another eason with their veterans aging and not playing?”
-Could Kobe and the “aging” Celtics benefit from extra rest to fully heal all of their ailments? I am pretty sure I don’t need to answer that one.

I would like to hear how many people have sympathy for the Heat and their owner if a portion of the seaon is lost. Pooooooooor Miami.

By: tashkalucy

tashkalucy — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:09:28 +0000

Yes, having the meter expiring on James, Wade and Bosh winning a championship in Miami is hurting the Heat owner.

However, since most owners are pretty upset about what those players did, they’re in no hurry to resume the season. As far as they’e concerned, screw the Heat owner and those 3 players as well.

I’ll repeat what I keep saying and what Charles Barkley said last week – this idea that star players go play with their friends in glamour markets is not going down well with the 20-23 ownership groups that see that they’re becoming nothing more than feeder teams so that ESPN and TNT have super team matchups to broadcast, and the agents and sponsors wind up being bigger movers-and-shakers then the owners and their front offices; while the fans in the 20-23 markets watch their star players leave….not exactly a way to build loyalty with the fan base. Like MLB the fans in those areas will show up when the team is winning, and stay away when they’re not.

The entire way free agency is handled in the NBA is going to change. And it’s going to take a lot of pain for the players to accept it. And that pain is going to have to occur for a long, long time.

By: themohel

themohel — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:07:05 +0000

Question

Given that NBA contracts are guaranteed, does a one year lockout “toll” the running of the contract? If a player has two years left on the contract right now and next year is missed because of the lockout, will the player still have two years left?

By: wiLQ

wiLQ — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:04:17 +0000

“There are NBA owners who need next season to happen”
Unfortunately most of them don’t…

BTW, if someone is interested in ownership history of any team I recommend this list:
http://weaksideawareness.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/buying-nba-team-ownership-timeline-history-with-prices/

By: craigw24

craigw24 — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:39:42 +0000

Kurt,
I agree we are not hearing from the owners who stand to lose in this ‘war’. They are also the ones who have learned how to be quiet and work behind the scenes – the more experienced owners.

My biggest issue is that I feel the owners have to resolve their revenue sharing issue BEFORE they come to any agreement with the players. That way they could point to what they have done to flatten out the extremes in the league and request the players to meet them at a place where both could profit. Of course this is the area where these older, more experienced owners have the least incentive to make changes. Aggggggh!