Comments on: NBA owners play “ultimate game” poorly, so players won’t cave

By: yanivvinay

yanivvinay — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:28:00 +0000

oh sport blogs, where meatheads and nerds bump uglies into some horribly innane conversation. Yea, the article states the obvious. Does anybody realize that these guys are just throwing out articles to help keep their own jobs? Theyre kinda going to lack content when the one thing they are allowed to talk about is locked out. fast forward a month and the script is still the same.

By: slowclyde86

slowclyde86 — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:26:49 +0000

bosutton: “Yeah, it’s totally stupid to explain the pyschological underpinnings of why people react the way they do to a deal. I mean that’s totally off topic.. oh, wait.

Savocabol1 – the professor said it was rational from an economic point of view to take any amount of money, but this is consistently shown not to be how humans act. This is pretty clearly related to the state of the lockout.”

Nice to know Kirt’s second handle is bosutton. Dumbest. Article. Ever.

By: bosutton

bosutton — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 04:27:28 +0000

Yeah, it’s totally stupid to explain the pyschological underpinnings of why people react the way they do to a deal. I mean that’s totally off topic.. oh, wait.

By: thetooloftools

thetooloftools — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:38:20 +0000

This is by far the stupidest story I have read yet on this situation. Nothing else is even close.

By: stangz11

stangz11 — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:26:39 +0000

Agreed. The bias is completely obvious and the players should take the 50-50 split regardless. Trying to defend them from taking a fair deal is nothing short of ridiculous. The owners, in my opinion, aren’t being greedy; the players are. After all, they’re the ones who want the bigger slice of the pie. Besides, the more money that goes to the league means more money spent on fans (improving stadiums, maybe lower ticket prices once revenue comes up). If the players take it what are they going to do with it? Go buy 3 Ferrari’s? If they REALLY wanted to play, they would have accepted a 50-50 shake awhile ago.

By: savocabol1

savocabol1 — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:06:48 +0000

Holy crap I wish I would get the last three mins of my life back from reading this. This site is going downhill fast. You interviewed a professor at a college to tell you that having some of something is better than having nothing at all?

Wow.

By: slowclyde86

slowclyde86 — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:26:01 +0000

Kurt, your shilling for the players is becoming embarrassing. Seriously.

The players have not accepted the offer because they have not felt any real pain yet. The lost checks have not not hit their individual accounts. In the end, be it in three months or 1+ years, they will accept what the owners want because they really have no other options. Go play overseas? Start their own league? Leverage their extensive non-basketball related skills? Please.

The owners have all the leverage. All of it. “Fair” will have nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with the final settlement.

By: therealhtj

therealhtj — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:47:37 +0000

Kurt, your bias towards the players becomes more and more blatant with every post. How about the fans? What do we gain by rehashing the same lousy system that simply puts a few more bucks in the owners pockets while the players will continue getting stupid contracts with no recourse.

Small market, big market – it really doesn’t matter. A well run team will be a well run team. Unless you’re lucky enough to draft an NBA superstar, all the money in the world won’t buy you a championship. But sign one lousy contract, and count yourself out of the running for the duration.