Who is right in nba lockout

The Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers formed their own two-team dynasty and faced one another in three memorable playoffs during that decade. Times , Nov. During the s, the least relished decade in modern N. In the ensuing three decades plus, nine have won titles, while league revenue consistently soared. A fourth element in the backdrop for the basketball negotiations relates to race.

The overwhelming percentage of NBA players are black and it is thought that roughly the same percentage of the affluent fan base in the sport is white. Players, rarely the object of fan sympathy in labor disputes, are at more of a disadvantage in NBA labor conflicts, a factor that led an National Basketball Players Association union lawyer and a television personality to liken the commissioner to a plantation owner.

Negotiations Resume, with Possible Breakthrough , N. The backdrop for the negotiations was the economic weapon once regarded as a dirty word in the lexicon of American labor-management relations—the lockout. This economic weaponry, endorsed by the Supreme Court since , 6 Open this footnote Close this footnote 6 Am.

Ship Bldg. NLRB, U. The lockout again was utilized in by recently peaceable football as well as by basketball. The owners gravitated towards the lockout tactic because in the event of strike protesting changes in conditions in employment, which proved ineffective , players who crossed the union picket line could play and still sue in antitrust simultaneously. And if there was any doubt about why and how we got here, no less than David Stern personified the problems on Monday afternoon.

Not 30 minutes after the players opted to disband the union, it was Stern who took to national television oozing with condescension and contempt.

Hunter and the lawyers brought in, that this was a good negotiating tactic. And that's all it is. This is a negotiating tactic. You don't get exactly the deal that you want, and you sue.

But it's not gonna work. If they were gonna do it, they should have done it a long time ago. But they seem hellbent on self-destruction. Later, when the anchor asked how he'd explain the news to disappointed basketball fans, Stern answered: "The fans can think that we were very close, and the players decided to blow it up. No quote captures Stern's breathtaking audacity quite like that one. This is all the players' fault, Stern tells his paying customers.

They just refused to negotiate. We've already outlined the broader, illogical dynamics driving the NBA lockout, but apart from all the numbers and rhetoric, it essentially comes down to the owners' all-encompassing entitlement. But even worse, Stern believes he's entitled to shaping the narrative in all this. In other words, not only can he and the owners erase 60 years of economic progress for the players, but they will rewrite the history as they go.

And worst of all? A lot of smart people believe him. As Ian Thomsen writes at Sports Illustrated on Monday: "For the NBA owners and players to shut down their league during the worst economic times in more than 60 years has got to be the dumbest thing they could imagine doing.

Wait a second. Wait wait wait wait wait wait, WAIT. Teams should be able to make the trades that make sense for them, without worrying about salaries, until a firm, hard cap is in reach. Under the new CBA, they should change this rule, allowing teams to trade as they wish, as long as they are below the hard cap.

Contracts in the NBA have a few major flaws in them. The biggest flaw is that every contract in the NBA is guarantied.

When players sign contracts, they will receive that money, whether they earn it, get injured, never play, or are cut. This can kill teams for years, giving out max contracts worth years and over million dollars, and the players getting injured or just not panning out. Take for example the 76ers and Elton Brand. The Sixers took a chance on him, and as last year he played well, he killed the Sixers for the two previous years. For teams already making money, they will make more money under this deal.

For teams on the cusp of making money, they will make money under this deal. For teams not making money, they will have the opportunity to make money under this deal. What will be the biggest unintended consequence of this deal?

That can't be known until everything comes into play and blends together. We should have an idea by or so. But my bet is that the benefit for young stars to sign with their own teams instead of seeking free agency -- the extra season -- will become more important in the new NBA, and will lead to fewer stars going the way of LeBron James , Chris Bosh and Carmelo Anthony.

Sure, LeBron and Bosh ended up getting sign-and-trades and 'Melo went extend-and-trade which will still exist. But the CBA's move to shrink all contracts makes each season count for more. Getting that fifth year on the second and third contracts will mean more than the sixth year has meant in the past. We'll see the rising crop of young stars stay home.

How u. That's not really question, as it lacks a question mark. But good, thank you for asking. What will all of the people who don't care about the NBA do? It has been springtime for NBA haters, who have registered their apathy for the league and its players in record numbers on Twitter, Facebook and in comment sections webwide. Do they all just burrow back into the rotted wood now? Will they begin terrorizing pro lacrosse bloggers? Will they infiltrate the feedback channel for various global economics websites?

Should we warn Nouriel? Who will be remembered as the hero of the lockout? I nominate Jim Quinn. The former union counsel swooped in over the past week, and voila.

It's like magic. It should be bottled and sold at an exorbitant price, and NBA players should invest slices of their portfolios in it. Will we at least look back on the lockout fondly, like a messed-up childhood friend who eventually found himself mixed up in a narco gang in Sinaloa but who you're sure still has a good heart?

Not a chance. Are you high? Will we forget about the lockout? Basketball has the ability to tie your heart up with strong, quick knots that force your brain to focus on that which you see and hear and smell and feel, and not that which you remember, and it is those moments that we as fans of basketball crave and seek and cherish, and it is those moments that watching the greatest players in the world can bring, and it is those moments that we will never forget.

And in those moments, we will forget about the lockout, because we will not see it or hear it or smell it or feel it, because the game will consume us, and because we will be content.