NBA Labor Pains

[trifectarich]

So it's possible that every team pays a different percentage of BRI as salaries but, league-wide, the aim is to get the total to come in at 50/52/57-whatever?

 

[Elliotte Friedman]

Every team definitely pays different amounts of BRI. In the NHL, the six Canadian teams (now 7, this is based on last year) combined for 33 per cent of the HRI.

Owners want it to be 50/50

 

[cranberry]

If the players owners want to play market a product, they'll take the deal negotiate. Their arrogance and sense of entitlement won't allow them.

 

[heyabbott]

Jordan's involvement gets more important by the day. Now that the percentages have been out there and he has been branded as the leader of the hard-liners, he is going to have to win, period, and not only is he going to have to win but he is going to have to make the players cry like Toni Kukoc in training camp.

Watch out for Jordan, I think he bet on the players laying .75%

 

[RickStain]

I know emotions get high and negotiations often look bleakest right before the deadline when a deal comes together, but I think the owners are out for blood and they're going to get it. Depending on just how punitive they want to be, I'm thinking they can drive that number a heck of a lot lower than 50 percent, too.

This is exactly what they've wanted all along. They want to crush the players, and they will, because they have the leverage.

 

[Starman]

Stern issues another threat.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/7211473/nba-lockout-owners-players-continue-talks-david-stern-5-pm-et-deadline-passes

Why doesn't he just start banging his shoe on the table?

 

[LongTimeListener]

This is just getting kind of funny now.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/7220959/nba-lockout-players-unlikely-accept-owners-proposal-sources-say

The clause would give teams the right to send a player down to the NBA Development League at any time during his first five years and pay him a severely reduced contract while he's there, a source who has examined the proposal told Bucher. Any player sent down to the D-League would be paid at a pro-rated scale of $75,000 a season, which is slightly above the current D-League maximum but roughly one-sixth of the NBA minimum, the source said.

The next step for the owners is a monthly fee for the use of lockers.

 

[Starman]

This is just getting kind of funny now.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/7220959/nba-lockout-players-unlikely-accept-owners-proposal-sources-say

The clause would give teams the right to send a player down to the NBA Development League at any time during his first five years and pay him a severely reduced contract while he's there, a source who has examined the proposal told Bucher. Any player sent down to the D-League would be paid at a pro-rated scale of $75,000 a season, which is slightly above the current D-League maximum but roughly one-sixth of the NBA minimum, the source said.

The next step for the owners is a monthly fee for the use of lockers.

Accept now or we start killing puppies.

 

[WS]

As Vincent Goodwill of the Detroit News tweeted:

"It's starting to sink in that I don't think there will be a season...because owners who did nothing to build the game want absolute power."

 

[Stoney]

This is just getting kind of funny now.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/7220959/nba-lockout-players-unlikely-accept-owners-proposal-sources-say

The clause would give teams the right to send a player down to the NBA Development League at any time during his first five years and pay him a severely reduced contract while he's there, a source who has examined the proposal told Bucher. Any player sent down to the D-League would be paid at a pro-rated scale of $75,000 a season, which is slightly above the current D-League maximum but roughly one-sixth of the NBA minimum, the source said.

The next step for the owners is a monthly fee for the use of lockers.

And they can do this to ANY five year player, even superstars? Man, talk about a way to keep the players in line--do something to pish off us or the coach? Well, then it's off to the D-League for you, and as for that 10 million dollar annual salary we promised to pay you, sorry it's 75K now.

No forking way players ever agree to that. Appears this season is cooked.

 

[Small Town Guy]

Everything I'm reading is that the D-league proposal is not part of the latest offer. Aschburner notes that the anonymous sources are messing everything up and confusing everything. People should put names to things and get the real proposal out there.

The point stands, though, that the owners are utterly insane at this point. Yet the players will be the ones who get the blame for no season.

 

[cranberry]

The point stands, though, that the owners are utterly insane at this point. Yet the players will be the ones who get the blame for no season.

It was never about the players but journalists are (for the most part) aren't telling that to their audiences for some reason. Oh, now I remember: A pox on both house! Millionaires vs. billionaires! It makes my hair hurt! I don't want to try and understand labor issues! Why don't the players just accept the outrageous deal of the day so we can watch basketball! Disgusting coverage, overall.