2011 lockout

[baseline bum]

I'm sick of hearing about the poor owners. that . Let a couple of them go under for their bad decisions. The owners already have such sweetheart deals with the way they constantly build new stadiums on the taxpayer dime and then price those same people out of attending the games.

[HornetLoveJones]

I wouldn't mind an NBA lockout. 82 games is more than enough for me the last decade. One off year wouldn't be so bad, just have that damn all star game in Dallas again and charge extra. EVERY NBA player can afford a year without a salary. College players will actually stay more than one year across the nation and for seniors well... they can apply at Taco Bell until the lockout resolves itself.

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LOCKOUT MOTHA AS!!!!!

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Terribly ignorant post, but I love what you did with the perspective.

The more I think about a lockout, the more I think it might be good for me. I'd get a lot more work done for 6 months of the year.

[Ode to Triple Ocho]

Lockout = great for the Lakers trying to three-peat. Kobe/Gasol a half-season rest? Good game. Might as well cut the trophy right now.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Lockout = great for the Lakers trying to three-peat. Kobe/Gasol a half-season rest? Good game. Might as well cut the trophy right now.

Parker could do with some rest too, but it really needs to be this summer.

[Darrin]

So, it really looks like there will be a lockout in 2011. My question to y'all hoop junkies is, how will that affect your at ude towards the NBA? Will you carry on as normal? Will you give up on the NBA and start following college hoops instead? Slam Ball? Lacrosse? Or will you make voodoo dolls of the owners and players and Billy Hunter and stick sharp objects in their genitalia? What?

It depends on what happens. I've got one eye on that deficit sitting over there and seeing if individual businesses will see the big picture or continue to stall the consumer from recovering from this crisis. So part of me is leery that if there is a work-stoppage, we may not have an NBA. I'm not paranoid, just cautious.

However, assuming our economic system stands, it will depend on what their labor-agreement is. If the NBA adopts a hard-cap system, my loyalties towards organizations will die. All of them. The Pistons, the Spurs, the Lakers, the Celtics, the Mavericks. There will be no players that define the organizations--only Peyton Manning and Tom Brady and Ray Lewis are safe. And it wasn't too long ago that Brett Favre was on that list. There will be no internal growth. There will be no chemistry. It will be a hyper-compe ive market where mediocre or overlooked players say things to grab time on ESPN and a team has exactly 12 months to define itself, learn each other, learn how to win, and overcome obstacles. Every team will be built like the 2007-08 Celtics--win now. Rajon Rondo and Big Baby Davis would've left last season for greener pastures. This is part of the reason I don't like football.

[Edward]

Lockout = great for the Lakers trying to three-peat. Kobe/Gasol a half-season rest? Good game. Might as well cut the trophy right now.

Go eat a you stupid hood rat.

[TheManFromAcme]

Being completely biased, as a Spurs fan, lockouts are great because Stern keeps winning every negotiation, thus making the NBA a much more level playing field for small markets like San Antonio. Without the 99 lockout, no way the Spurs could have been able to pay Tim Duncan and David Robinson together, and then pay Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker later on. If it wasn't for the lockout, Duncan would have been pulling $25+ million a season from 2000 on and the Spurs would have been SOL.

Despite all the ing from ignorant fans who think Stern is in on some great conspiracy to screw the Spurs and put the Lakers in the Finals every year, Stern has been very good to the Spurs via the salary cap, luxury tax, and bounds on player salaries. I personally think it screws the players over royally, but I'm a fan and there's nothing logical about fanaticism.

That's some good stuff Base.

[MB20]

Euroleague, here we come!!!

Signed,
Former NBA players who were royally screwed by the new CBA.

[DPG21920]

I hope there is not a lockout. Basketball is essentially all I watch.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

It depends on what happens. I've got one eye on that deficit sitting over there and seeing if individual businesses will see the big picture or continue to stall the consumer from recovering from this crisis. So part of me is leery that if there is a work-stoppage, we may not have an NBA. I'm not paranoid, just cautious.

Huh? Businesses are stopping consumers from stimulating the economy? How exactly? Maybe there's just no more money out there because people are so debt-laden. Maybe the existing model of credit-supported material throughput and infinite growth (absurd on a finite planet) is over and we need to start transitioning to a new economic model... not that that is happening either, but I can tell you that business is not the reason your economy isn't recovering quickly. Business responds to demand.

However, assuming our economic system stands, it will depend on what their labor-agreement is. If the NBA adopts a hard-cap system, my loyalties towards organizations will die. All of them. The Pistons, the Spurs, the Lakers, the Celtics, the Mavericks. There will be no players that define the organizations--only Peyton Manning and Tom Brady and Ray Lewis are safe. And it wasn't too long ago that Brett Favre was on that list. There will be no internal growth. There will be no chemistry. It will be a hyper-compe ive market where mediocre or overlooked players say things to grab time on ESPN and a team has exactly 12 months to define itself, learn each other, learn how to win, and overcome obstacles. Every team will be built like the 2007-08 Celtics--win now. Rajon Rondo and Big Baby Davis would've left last season for greener pastures. This is part of the reason I don't like football.

Interesting take, and yeah, I think you might be right. A level playing field sounds great in theory, but it often leads to hyper-player movement and that's the last thing the NBA needs. I don't want to support any team that is 75% new players every year. Part of what makes any team a personal favourite is watching the players develop.