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Poor, Poor NBA Players

By Lee Eric Smith On November 17, 2011 · Add Comment · In Nov. 2011

Dont you felt sorry for the players?

They only wanted to play. They didnt want labor disputes. They didnt want lockouts. They just wanted to play.

The next thing they know, they were getting bullied by David Stern. They werent being offered the money they wanted from the owners. In fact, the owners were being just plain mean to them by demanding they take their latest offer or the next offer would reflect the losses incurred [...]

Making Changes

By Lee Eric Smith On November 15, 2011 · Add Comment · In Nov. 2011

Labor talks. Players’ union. David Stern. Agents. 50-50. Basketball Related Income (BRI). Revenue Sharing. Market Size. Salary cap. Guaranteed contracts.

These are all the keywords we’ve heard over and over since the lockout started months ago. We all know that the billionaires and millionaires (and hundred thousand-aires in the case of the end of the bench guys) are trying to figure out how to divvy up all of the money in a way that benefits each of their respective groups [...]

Kevin Durant Talks to 3SOB at Rudy’s Charity Game

By Lee Eric Smith On November 15, 2011 · Add Comment · In Nov. 2011

Okay, before we get to this clip of Kevin Durant at Rudy Gay’s Flight 22 Foundation Charity Game, I gotta rant for exactly one paragraph on today’s news that the players rejected the NBA’s latest offer and will head to court to fight it out:

Bad move. I was really hoping that the player reps would at least allow the full union to vote on the deal. Had that happened, it might have gotten voted down, but at least we’d [...]

Agents Get Their Way

By Lee Eric Smith On November 15, 2011 · Add Comment · In Nov. 2011

Better late than never I suppose.

The NBA players have finally decided to give into their agents demands and have agreed to decertify their own union putting the entire season into greater jepardy than at any time during the lockout.

In a move that smells of lawyers the league did NOT decide to have a vote on decertification however. Instead they chose to issue adisclaimer of interest. What is a disclaimer of interest you ask? It is usually used [...]

The 1%

By Lee Eric Smith On November 13, 2011 · Add Comment · In Nov. 2011

There are many things in the news right now that I don’t understand. And, when I say I don’t understand them, of course I mean that I don’t care enough about them to pay attention to the details.

However, one of the things I have paid attention to is the Occupy Wall Street movement. As Chip wrote about a couple of weeks ago, there are some similarities between the OWS movement and the NBA labor situation, most notably that [...]

Poor, Poor NBA Players

Making Changes

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Agents Get Their Way

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