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Start of NBA season believed at stake in weekend talks
NBA fans might know by the end of the weekend if the regular season will start on time November 1, with team owners and locked-out players gathering in New York for crucial talks aimed at a new labor deal.
Deputy commissioner Adam Silver told reporters this week that the league is âgetting very closeâ to having to delay the regular season if significant progress isnât made in this weekendâs talks, which began Friday.
Commissioner David Stern may have gone further, warning Wednesday of âenormous consequencesâ if progress isnât made.
âThen it wonât be a question of just starting the season on time, it will be a lot at risk from the absence of progress,â he said.
The ownersâ labor relations committee and a playersâ committee â joined by some stars who arenât on the playersâ panel, such as LeBron James - were meeting Friday, and could meet Saturday and Sunday, according to NBA.com.
Team owners have locked out their players since July, when the last collective bargaining agreement â a contract between the teams and the players union which outlines the rules of the playersâ pay â expired. One key issue has been the ownersâ demand for a hard salary cap, driven in part by claims that 22 of 30 teams lost money last season.
SI.com: One group of owners holds key to ending lockout
The lack of a deal prompted the league to postpone training camps that were supposed to start next week, and cancel 43 preseason games that were supposed to be played October 9-15.
NBA.com writer Steve Aschburner has noted that regular season games wouldnât happen immediately after a handshake agreement. The deal would need to be ratified, and a free-agency period would need to be squeezed in, not to mention preseason games.
Asked on Wednesday whether the league could start a season without preseason games, Stern said he wouldnât âdeal with hypotheticals.â
âIâm focused on (getting) the two committees in and ⊠whether they can either have a season or not have a season. And thatâs whatâs at risk this weekend,â Stern said.
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This type of nonsense sounds all too familiar...
No season, the NBA contracts and becomes a 27or fewer teams. The NBA agents can push for decertification, then the owners can tear up all the contracts and start over. The new smaller League may be able to get some games going by January, maybe not.
The players are taking millions in salary per their contracts, and then millions more in "revenue sharing", but the players are taking no financial risks under the current financial arrangement, amking no investments in the League or system, or real estate or staffing...... and now they are putting their livlihood at risk......but then nobody ever said they were the brightest bulbs in the arena chandlier.
You're wrong. "Revenue sharing" goes both ways. If the actual league revenue numbers are less than the numbers the salary caps were calculated on, the players as a group must pay back the difference. My understanding is that has never happened, although the mechanism was in place for this last year and the players were warned by their union, in light of the economy, that it might happen. In other words the league income has always met or exceeded the projections. When an owner goes beyond the salary cap, a purely voluntary act, only that portion of the salary within the cap is considered against the overall percentage for revenue sharing purposes and only that portion of the salary is subject to reimbursement under "revenue sharing". Each year the cap limits are tentatively set based upon estimated revenues.
Yaaaaawn, who cares.
Well you obviously cared enough to read the article.
Darn, and I just bought the cutest little chearleading outfit and pompoms.
Don't really care to support these bad mannered and overpaid primadonna's. Let quit altogether. Especially LeFlop
Does anyone even watch the NBA anymore? If the NCAA Men's Basketball season was in jeopardy, then I might be concerned.
I don't care anymore. The PLAYERS and the owners are way too greedy. When they demand all this money, the fans are the one paying for it in the end. Enough already. Throw the whole season. Who cares anymore. Hurt their pockets and let them see how it feels!
Who cares...........................
I could care less. The Pistons are garbage now anyways.
Is basketball still a sport?
If the talks don't work, black unemployment rate will rise even more
I 've always wanted to watch an NBA game but I just don't think I can make through all nine innings.
Another greedy start by another professional sport.
they should discuss cap for greed than salary!
We don't have a 9.1 unemployment rate, we a have e 9.1 % on strike rate.. It's just no one care about 9.1 % unemployed because they are not spoiled rotten greedy millionaires.