Rick posted:

This was a continuation of the last deal with some improvements but the last deal was reallly bad. So in a sense I get where Draymond is coming from. But there is no way they are fixing that without a very long stoppage where public sentiment is on their side or a successful competing league.

alansmithee posted:

I don't think public sentiment should even be a concern because I think the numerous lockouts have shown it's gonna be largely against the players regardless. Look at how many people still thought it was the players who shut down the NBA/NHL/NFL previously.

If they really wanted to force the issue, they should either start a strike during the All star weekend or right before the playoffs. You need to make sure that the owners are also feeling the bite of a work stoppage (moreso than just the loss of revenue).

euphronius posted:

Those would be unlawful strikes .

Dejan Bimble posted:

Yea, expiring cba time is the only time NBA players can strike, unless the owners were forcing them to take horse steroids or something and then they could strike for unfair labor practices

Dejan Bimble posted:

Yea, expiring cba time is the only time NBA players can strike, unless the owners were forcing them to take horse steroids or something and then they could strike for unfair labor practices

R.D. Mangles posted:

how common is it for a team to have a back-to-back home and home against the same team

bulls are at mil tonight and tomorrow have mil at the UC

alansmithee posted:

Is that written into the CBA? If so no wonder the owners won. Alternately, could they do some decertification type tactic to abandon the season (I know that was threatened before, when they were gonna go after the antitrust exemption or w/e).

I just recall when baseball players went on strike mid-season, how was that legal? Or did they claim unfair labor practices?

euphronius posted:

Most NBA players have a limited window to earn 95% of what they will ever ever earn in their life . This complicates things.

euphronius posted:

Bud Selig getting into the hall of fame makes me never want to watch a baseball game again.

Kibner posted:

I'm going to regret saying this, but Buddy has been approaching competency the last several games.

Henchman of Santa posted:

How bad does a commissioner have to be to not get into their Hall of Fame?

straight up brolic posted:

NFL has by far the worst commissioner/ownership/player relationship. They still don't have guaranteed contracts.

straight up brolic posted:

NFL has by far the worst commissioner/ownership/player relationship. They still don't have guaranteed contracts.

straight up brolic posted:

NFL has by far the worst commissioner/ownership/player relationship. They still don't have guaranteed contracts.

euphronius posted:

Of the three major sports the NBA is the only one approaching humanist sanity.

Crazy Ted posted:

The NHL might be close considering what's happened in the last ten years there.

NickRoweFillea posted:

https://twitter.com/kgarea21/status/809561815344525312

drat KG got it all dusty in here

Brolander posted:

euphronius posted:

I don't think Vincent or giamatti are in?
Maybe they are.

Baseball is so terrible what a horribly run sport. They crucify and ostracized their best player because they are dumb.

Time posted:

I had the pleasure of meeting Craig Sager once. There was a group of us wounded army guys who would hang around all day at the basketball court while we were rehabbing at Walter Reed. It was basically all we had to pass the time. We would bullshit, then play a game. Bitch about our injuries, then play a game. It was the only time we ever felt like things were back to normal.

One of the guys everyone loved had broken both of his legs really badly in an IED blast. One day he didn't come in. A week passed and we figured he was just discharged to hospice or something and had just made an Irish Exit because he didn't want to say goodbye. About three weeks later he showed back up with his legs amputated. they just couldn't save them because they were broken beyond fixing.

This destroyed morale for about 15 minutes because all of a sudden Craig walked in. I almost didn't recognize him because he had khakis on. I mean, his sweater was pretty sager-esque but the khakis and shoes were all dad fashion. He joked with every single one of us for the whole afternoon. He played horse with my newly amputated buddy and wrecked him. On his way out he said if we ever needed anything, he would remember our names and get us into games. I never took him up on it but I really do believe he would have given me that ugly rear end sweater off his back.

Thanks again Craig. I just wish I had gotten to beat your rear end at horse. I had next

Time posted:

I had the pleasure of meeting Craig Sager once. There was a group of us wounded army guys who would hang around all day at the basketball court while we were rehabbing at Walter Reed. It was basically all we had to pass the time. We would bullshit, then play a game. Bitch about our injuries, then play a game. It was the only time we ever felt like things were back to normal.

One of the guys everyone loved had broken both of his legs really badly in an IED blast. One day he didn't come in. A week passed and we figured he was just discharged to hospice or something and had just made an Irish Exit because he didn't want to say goodbye. About three weeks later he showed back up with his legs amputated. they just couldn't save them because they were broken beyond fixing.

This destroyed morale for about 15 minutes because all of a sudden Craig walked in. I almost didn't recognize him because he had khakis on. I mean, his sweater was pretty sager-esque but the khakis and shoes were all dad fashion. He joked with every single one of us for the whole afternoon. He played horse with my newly amputated buddy and wrecked him. On his way out he said if we ever needed anything, he would remember our names and get us into games. I never took him up on it but I really do believe he would have given me that ugly rear end sweater off his back.

Thanks again Craig. I just wish I had gotten to beat your rear end at horse. I had next

Lockback posted:

Wow man, thanks for sharing that. I have a feeling a bunch of people in all walks are sharing their positive Craig Sager stories.

WhyteRyce posted:

The players position significantly weakens once any kind of stoppage happens, although I guess they might stay unified better now that Kobe isn't around to call up CP3 at 2am and just take the drat deal so he can go back to chasing buckets

Time posted:

I had the pleasure of meeting Craig Sager once. There was a group of us wounded army guys who would hang around all day at the basketball court while we were rehabbing at Walter Reed. It was basically all we had to pass the time. We would bullshit, then play a game. Bitch about our injuries, then play a game. It was the only time we ever felt like things were back to normal.

One of the guys everyone loved had broken both of his legs really badly in an IED blast. One day he didn't come in. A week passed and we figured he was just discharged to hospice or something and had just made an Irish Exit because he didn't want to say goodbye. About three weeks later he showed back up with his legs amputated. they just couldn't save them because they were broken beyond fixing.

This destroyed morale for about 15 minutes because all of a sudden Craig walked in. I almost didn't recognize him because he had khakis on. I mean, his sweater was pretty sager-esque but the khakis and shoes were all dad fashion. He joked with every single one of us for the whole afternoon. He played horse with my newly amputated buddy and wrecked him. On his way out he said if we ever needed anything, he would remember our names and get us into games. I never took him up on it but I really do believe he would have given me that ugly rear end sweater off his back.

Thanks again Craig. I just wish I had gotten to beat your rear end at horse. I had next

Rick posted:

Wrong Laker, it was Shaq actually, although to be fair he gave up 40 million dollars in order to make it happen.

quote:

“Late in the evening before the Waldorf Astoria meeting, I was already in bed for the night when my phone rang," Hunter wrote in the court filing. "The caller identified himself as the ‘Black Mamba.' I knew it was Kobe Bryant, a superstar player for the Los Angeles Lakers and the highest paid player in the NBA."

Bryant informed Hunter that his agent, Pelinka also was on the phone.

At that point, Hunter said that Bryant urged him to accept a 50-50 split of revenue in the meeting the following day and "put this thing to bed. ... Do the deal."

Hunter said Bryant also told him, "I got your back."