This Is What I Think Of The NBA Lockout

by Tom Martin on Oct 10, 2011 10:52 PM CDT in YouTube because we're lazy

What a bunch of morons. At the end of the day, Derek Fisher's final speech will surely sound something like this:

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Except that it's theoretically the owners who are "on strike"

it’s a lockout not a strike.

by jack_ on Oct 11, 2011 1:58 AM CDT reply actions

The players can end this whenever they want

If you think the owners are unreasonable, that’s fine. But the players are still being offered to play for an average salary north of $5 million. They’ll be ok and the victim card they’ve tried to play the last few days is just stupid.

I’m frankly just pissed off that both sides couldn’t be adults and make a freaking compromise. It’s hard to pick sides in this issue, but I, like every other NBA fan, just wants to see some basketball.

by Patrick Harrel on Oct 11, 2011 7:09 AM CDT up reply actions

Can The Dream Shake - the best fans in the league...

help support our own cause as fans?

http://www.facebook.com/pages/NBA-Fans-Union-Lockout/231120003605258

As TheChuckWagonIsRolling States below, he can barely afford a couple nosebleed seat games. I come up from Corpus Christi, so on top of paying for seats, merch, food, I also pay for fuel, hotel stays, etc.

We hold the purse strings. I’ve had a tough time getting people to “like” the fan page, but I think it’s something we should all take ownership of, and I have about 5 admins. We’re struggling to get our message out there…

Can The Dream Shake help?

by curtisrock on Oct 11, 2011 1:19 PM CDT up reply actions

The owners can end this whenver they want too

You act like it’s the player’s responsibility to take whatever the owners are willing to give them.
I don’t think the owners are unreasonable to want as much money as they can possibly get, but neither are the players for not wanting to take a significantly larger pay-cut then they already are.

Tom IS right that the Union heads are going to look really dumb if they can’t get the owners to go at least a little higher than 47%.

by jack_ on Oct 11, 2011 11:39 PM CDT up reply actions

The worst the players will get is 50%

The Owners for all intents and purposes offered 50% to the players, it just wasn’t a formal offer. If the players agreed to 50/50, the owners would be ecstatic.

The fact is that it’s idiotic to hold out for a few hundred million when you’ll lose at least as much by not making a deal. Both sides are just entrenched out of pride right now.

by Patrick Harrel on Oct 12, 2011 12:32 AM CDT up reply actions

50%...

How about we as the consumer say 50% off everything.

by curtisrock on Oct 12, 2011 5:45 PM CDT up reply actions

I know... it's a stretch.

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by Tom Martin on Oct 11, 2011 1:40 PM CDT up reply actions

So true Tom, so true...

what a shame. They argue about their millions, and I can’t afford to go to more than one or two games in the nosebleed section

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by TheChuckwagonisrolling on Oct 11, 2011 6:23 AM CDT reply actions

Ill tell u whats worse...

i cant even see the video coz im not in america. i have to preorder NBA games on the xbox or else none will b sent to the shop but ive not bought it whats the point i have to same rosters in last years game only some my player tweeks and legend games will b the difference.

this year i am not going to buy the international league pass to watch the games mostly out of spite. ive stopped goin to NBA.com coz only news they tell me is people are still fighting and nonewhere close to anything. i still come here daily tho for some reason.

Ive even started watching american football which is interesting but ive no grasp on rules/plays or what the hell they keep saying! My point bein the NBA is destroying its international fanbase i mean over here theres so many other sports that can easily replace NBA (because of the time its on, trouble getting full stories) theres the eircom league premiership and champions league, heineken cup and magners league, eurobasket, Gaelic football and hurling aswell as others such as golf, tennis, F1.

My point is im not sure what its like in america but over here the few fans i no are extremely angry that there is no basketball because of fights over money and casual fans will be lost so surely its very bad business. aaarrrgggghhhh #endrant

by IrishThrasher on Oct 11, 2011 7:19 AM CDT reply actions 1 recs

We will have to teach you this American football

It’s quite entertaining. You tell me how rugby works, i’ll teach you how football works.

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even worse! " ~Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

by TheChuckwagonisrolling on Oct 11, 2011 2:04 PM CDT up reply actions

sounds like a lovely trade

same uve mostly missed the whole world cup but its pretty interesting

by IrishThrasher on Oct 12, 2011 3:08 PM CDT up reply actions

dude

I even had to watch cricket. CRICKET. And it’s not as bad as I thought it to be.

by galicae on Oct 12, 2011 6:10 AM CDT up reply actions

i donno bout that now

i like to play golf but i dont think id sit and just watch golf or cricket

by IrishThrasher on Oct 12, 2011 3:09 PM CDT up reply actions

the hard part, as a rockets fan

is that two of our three most valuable players are at a point in their careers where they can’t waste time sitting around until a season starts. Martin and Scola are just getting older, and they are not going to be half as valuable in a year or two, so capitalizing on their strengths now is really important.

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