As usual, you have no facts, no sense of history or of the sport, and are operating strictly on emotion. In previous posts, I and others have explained the league’s history, with examples, and how the nature of the sport and how it is marketed and televised precludes an NFL-type situation from developing. You have yet to address any of these points–because you can’t. It is also highly debatable as to whether that sort of model would be good for the league as a commercial product even if it were possible.

If the owners eventually succeed in getting a hard cap in the next CBA, that still won’t create the type of league you have conjured in your head, unless perhaps they simply eliminate free agency for All-Star caliber players. Even if they did that, and no more than one star was ever on each team, whoever had the best player would have an enormous advantage, as it would be very hard to put together a team like the 2010 Celtics that could beat the 2010 Cavs or a team like the 1990 Pistons that could beat the 1990 Bulls.

Also this Lock out was never about players demanding any money from owners. This was about Owners demanding and getting almost $300 million from the players’ revenue share. At least try to learn the major points of this conflict before you open your mouth and prove how clueless you are.

Collective bargaining protects pro sports teams from anti trust suits. Without collective bargaining there would be no draft, in the NFL they would be no franchise tag, there would be no salary caps, no salary floor, no limits on how much a super star like say Lebron James or Kobe Bryant can earn…..After Lebron James left Cleveland the value of that franchise dropped $250 million according to bloomberg.com. I would venture to guess if James can add $250 million in value to a franchise there would be teams willing to pay him significantly more than the top yearly franchise rate of $16 million per year. If there were no collective bargaining teams couldn’t keep HS graduates from entering the NBA draft…….You see the owners and players both benefit from collective bargaining in ALL professional team sports in the US. I hope that answers your question.

For those of us that are hard – working class Americans, we believe that even a minimum wage job will help a family in need, while providing some sense of pride because the income is being ” EARNED ” !!!

All while helping reduce unemployment and helping to stir our economy and maybe corporations will hire more and banks will lend more.

I know that’s the big picture. Hopefully if you open your eyes, you can see past the ” Hatred ” !

My belief is, because you can have kids, doesn’t mean you should !!!

Maybe if your kids are of a working age ( and your ignorance hasn’t rubbed off on them too much ) they can possibly get one of the jobs at an NBA arena.

Whether you like ” inner city thugs ” or not, the fact of the matter remains that the NBA season is a good thing because unemployed Americans are struggling and the NBA season will provide thousands of jobs.

I wanna see the GAME, not a bunch of pampered stars!

Let’s Go Heat, Mavs, Bobcats, Raptures, Lakers, Celtics, Cavs, Knicks, Spurs, Rockets, Wizards, Magic, Clippers, Kings, Suns, Jazz, Grizzlies, Nets, Trailblazers, Thunder, 76ers, Hawks, Nuggets, Bulls, Pistons, Pacers, Hornets, Warriors, Bucks and Timberwolves

I know you and all of your trailer park, ” good-ole-boys ” hate to see people that don’t look like you, earn a living but after Bush ran the country into a Great Recession, it is important for people to get back to work asap, to not only help their families but help America pull out of this recession.

Your comments are so idiotic, I doubt you have more than a 7th grade education ! That’s not totally bad because if you work very hard, you can possibly get a G.E.D.

Then you can possibly get a job to earn an income and then you not have so much contempt and hatred for others.

However, the board is patrolled by knuckle-dragging Neanderthals, that ” hate ” human beings !
Mainly because the majority of the NBA players don’t look like them.

Ultimately, I’m glad to see B-Ball return because it means thousands of Americans will now EARN gainful employment.

From parking lot attendants or concession stand workers all the way up to David Stern himself, the NBA season will provide very needed income to many American families and provide an additional jolt to our economic struggles.

The only thing funny about your comments, is the realization that you are ” eating your heart out ” !!!

You are obviously a member of one of the idiot, uneducated, toothless, meth smoking, trailer park residents that have attempted to oppress minorities, historically !!!

You don’t care about basketball. You are only here to spew your clandestine hatred for other human beings, that don’t look like you.

The world is leaving you idiots behind. Since you crawled out of your cave with the other Neanderthals, did anyone tell you the planet is not flat !!!

WHO WANTS TO SEE SOME B-BALL !!!!

Dude you have so much stereotypical racism boiling right under the surface of your comments, it’s obvious you don’t truly care about the players caving in !!!

Find the tallest trailer, in your trailer park community, climb to the top of it and jump off head first !!

Haters- Zero…Rest of World – Infinity