Comments on: David Stern’s pitch to players through ESPN

By: bic05

bic05 — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:09:10 +0000

They do. http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/63908/000119312511046701/d10k.htm

By: aqzi

aqzi — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:38:53 +0000

Of course owners aren’t obligated to open their books. But if the owners claim they are losing hundreds of millions a year, opening up the books for evidence wouldn’t hurt.

By: yournuts

yournuts — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:45:51 +0000

Go ahead players and waste a year of not getting paid and see if the deal will be better next year. So, how many years of getting paid NBA salaries will you get in your life time?

By: yournuts

yournuts — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:42:40 +0000

This is about as stupid a comment as I have seen. Why would any owner of any business show his books to an employee? Your either a player, part of the posse or an idiot if you think this will even remotely happen.

By: southpawnc

southpawnc — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:13:11 +0000

I would be so happy if I don’t ever see another major sports lockout again… But we will be in the same situation again when the next contracts are up. At this point I don’t care who gets what… Let’s get this thing done.

By: Chris Fiorentino

Chris Fiorentino — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:16:46 +0000

Take the deal players. Or else decertify. Do something. $hit or get off the pot. Clearly, the owners aren’t going above 50/50 split. So either get some more leverage or take the deal. Stop wasting time before a whole season is cancelled.

By: silverbuffalo

silverbuffalo — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:51:12 +0000

Maybe mcdonalds should have to open their books too – if you don’t like it go work somewhere else.

By: chargerdillon

chargerdillon — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:21:17 +0000

Thanks for giving me something to stupid to swat at

If by the group of fairly uneducated men, you mean basketball players, you would do well to be reminded a college degree is hardly a measure of ones intelligence.

Kobe went to high school, George W. Bush went to Yale. Any given day I would take Kobe to beat Bush in an intelligence test.

The owners have done one thing for the NBA, they’ve given people of any race, creed, color a chance to play and make millions of dollars in a sport as long as they are up to the level of competition. The owners can sign checks for these players BECAUSE THE PLAYERS MAKE THEM MONEY.

You know what happens if the players say we’re going to hold out this season to show our worth. You know what the NBA is then? its 30 owners who sit in the 1% against ALL THE PEOPLE, ALL THE PLAYERS, ALL THE WORKERS, in that 99% who have just found a reason to not support 30 overly greedy a-holes in that 1%

Owners will still be rich, and the rest of us will find better places to spend our money.

This isn’t a standard business, stop trying to look at this as an employer/empoyee issue, this is a business that is entirely generated on THE PLAYERS, they have the power, and they will control their own destiny.

By: zblott

zblott — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:59:07 +0000

Before the players sign anything, owners should be forced to show what’s happening on the books to make all these losses appear in a sport that’s absolutely booming financially:

http://www.behindthebasket.com/btb/2011/11/7/5-items-the-owners-should-reveal-before-any-deal-is-signed.html

By: silverbuffalo

silverbuffalo — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:56:57 +0000

So a group of fairly uneducated men walk in a courtroom and say “my boss put up billions of dollars and have risk in their business but he won’t pay me 50% of the profit. I can work elsewhere but choose not to because I’ll only be paid a fraction of what I do in the NBA – but I can work I just choose not to.”
Boss says – I even buy this guys sneakers.

Now what does the judge say to that?