Is Another Lockout On The Horizon?

[Spurs Brazil]

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Is Another Lockout On The Horizon?

Jan 23, 2009 9:38 AM EST
The current collective bargaining agreement between the NBA and players union expires in 2011, and some involved believe that another lockout is a strong possibility.

The league has to decide by Dec. 15, 2010, whether to extend the collective-bargaining agreement through the 2011-12 season. If not extended, it expires June 30, 2011.

"If the economy doesn't turn in two years, there's definitely going to be a lockout because everybody is taking a hit in this recession," Kings' guard Bobby Jackson said. "The owners are definitely going to want to make some cutbacks, and the players aren't going to want to make the cutbacks.

"But I think we have to put our differences aside and say what's best, and that's playing this game and giving fans what they want and not being selfish."

[pawe]

Lockout shortened seasons are the Spurs' specialty.

[Banzai]

Lockout shortened seasons are the Spurs' specialty.

..was there a lockout in 99?

[pawe]

We steamrolled through that of a season!

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

Yup, the players will lose perspective and think that they don't have to take a pay cut even though every other person in this country is taking one.

They simply need to raise the salary cap 5-10 million but make it a hard salary cap like the NFL with no bird rights or salary cap exceptions. This way big market teams don't have such an unfair advantage AND Corey Magette won't get paid 10,000,000.

[Lakers999]

99 = *

[baseline bum]

Another lockout or a strike would devastate the league. Society and the media took a real hard-line view with its judgment of the players back in 99, and I'm not sure people would come back after another work stoppage just like they never really did for baseball. The owners and the NBAPA could really kill the goose that laid golden eggs in this go-round if they're not careful.