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"You have never prolly worked in your life or you have no education what so ever"
to thal all i gotta say is atleast a got life lol i dont sit here like you 24/7 so relax....... i knw how the thing works dont copy and paste stuff that i already know all im saying is if you could just divide that money up wouldnt every team have some kind of a revenue?....... i knw im not stupid but that championship wouldnt have been there if there was no nowitzki either......You gotta be an idiot to say the players arent the NBA's asset you need to chill out bud, i agree with the fans part obviously nothing would be there without the fans..... n yes a lot of the nba players havent done that great in the nba but there are basketball leagues around the world that are willing to pay for these players theres europe, china, australia, canada just formed a league as well they have options now n im not saying all 450 of those players want 2 mil a game.... there are like atleast 200 nba players taht will make an average amount in europe im sure a lot of teams can afford them and yes the stars may have a problem but they can still make it work........ and youre trading a player part yes cleveland doesnt like lebron but what will happen if they dont start winning games? what will u say to that? i think they would want lebron back..... You gotta understand players run the league theres no league without them they cant be replaced an owner can sell a team and all that but you cant come up with new players.... im not stupid if a team doesnt make money it wont exist.... but a lot of these problems can be solved with revenue sharing between the teams and a few other rules that dont involve players get a pay cut or alteast not a 50-50 i agree with 53-47...... n owners mite end up getting what they want but it will never be the right thing to do..... ps. get a life :)

And dont take personal shots at people thats when your education actually comes into play... youre telling me i have never had an education or worked in my life.... im sure if you did you would know how to talk... everyones stating their opinion about things it may make you angry but who do you think you are to say that? argue about the lockout if you can Einstein

If you know how things work then how can you post things like: "owners have done nothing their income comes from things unrelated to basketball", "owners can sell a team and all that". Seriously? You still think that a basketball team is ment to run into minus every year. Who is going to buy teams making a solid loss every year?
Don't worry there will always be players. Perhaps it takes a year, perhaps 2, players will get replaced with guys who want to play basketball. The players now are spoiled. For example J.Childress came to play in europe. If you are accustomed flying 1-st class, living in the best hotels etc. Driving 6 hours in a buss, flying economy class and sleeping in a hostel will change their minds. He said he will never come back here again:)
I just wrote that I could not finish my post because it was weekend? How did you manage to misinterpet that to me sitting here 24/7?:) Even suggesting that someone sits online 24/7, in a game, that requires you to log on 2-3 times a week is bizarre.
So my advise to you is: finish that elementary school, learn a trade (university might be too much for you), get a job. See who pay's what and who calls the shots and then we can discuss grown up things. GL.

Someone needs to get of their soapbox, and get back to reality.

1st, Even in this economy, there is no shortage of people that want to own NBA Franchises. Why? Its a license to print money. The players are not at fault. When the Maloof(sp?) brothers, can't even make money running casinos, maybe they shouldn't own and NBA Franchise.

2nd, the NBA has yet to show any numbers that these teams are losing money. We are suppose to take it at their word? If the proof is in the pudding where is the pudding?

3rd, Why should the players cave to these demands. NO one made them sign these contracts. If team x, wants to go over the salary cap and pay a penalty to do so, why shouldn't they be allowed. This is good for the players, and apparently good for the owners, if they have no problems do it.

It all goes back to revenue sharing, the owners want their cake and for no one else to eat it too. That is why the NFL has a successful ownership model. Each team knows how much they will get from the TV contract. Guess what, its more then enough to found their rosters. In the NBA, the owners don't want to share. Why would the Knicks, Lakers, Bulls, Celtics, want to share their revenue with the Hawks, Grizzles, Bobcats, etc? What this lockout is really about is the owners not want to share their TV contracts, so they are going to make the players suffer. Yeah thats fair.

Lastly, for someone so smart, you don't have to login 2-3 times a week, you only have to login, once every 6 weeks. :P

Lastly, for someone so smart, you don't have to login 2-3 times a week, you only have to login, once every 6 weeks. :P

You need to log in after every game, to set up lineups if there are injuries. There is no doubt I am smarter than you.

2nd, the NBA has yet to show any numbers that these teams are losing money.

Y it's really smart to lose games if you have a profitable organization. Let's alianate fans to get even more money, oh wait...
TV contracts are team based. Stations want to create channels based on those teams. With higher taxes the money get's spread to the teams below the cap.
We can't really compare 9bil (NFL) and 4bil (NBA) markets, can we? Split of BRI at 50-50 would bring all teams to profit. It's really funny how people still think that players can win here. Lockout lasts, all employees (including players) and everyone related to NBA games lose money. Most of the owners do not lose money (8 of them prolly do). They give up and continue the same CBA, most of the owners start losing money again. The longer the lockout the more everyone but the owners lose. Even if the players struck a bit better deal than 50-50 BRI later in the lockout, they still have lost a lot of money and that little win will not gain that money back. It's really that simple.

You need to log in after every game, to set up lineups if there are injuries. There is no doubt I am smarter than you.

Actually you don't. You can if you want to, but you don't have to. However you do have to login, once every 6 weeks or you will lose your team. You must feel really insecure to have to reiterate to yourself, how much smarter you are, then someone you don't even know.

i think if it ever weas a serious suggestion, now it is a serious discussion about the lockout and i move it in the non bb section.

There is a problem with the owners though. The nonstar players are being overpaid awfully and that isn't on the players. It's on the owners and GMs foolishly giving them those deals.