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The NBA Players Association has announced its intention to file a disclaimer of interest, essentially announcing it will decertify and file an anti-trust lawsuit against the league instead of accepting the league's proposed deal and continuing the NBA lockout. The news comes after all 30 player team representatives and a number of other players met on Monday to address the NBA's most recent proposal, which is outlined here.
I looked at the contract. The owners were unreasonable in demanding significant reductions in pay, while the players were unreasonable in not allowing rule changes to make the league more competitive. The legal issue is not over unions, but rather antitrust rules. As the sole professional basketball league, the NBA has a monopoly. Monopolies have special restrictions that limit certain behaviors considered anti-competitive. Court rulings in the past however have often given professional sports franchises special treatment. The players are banking on court ruling in their favor, hoping to use precedents from the NFL lockout.
Ugh I wish the Thrashers were still here, this situation would have really helped them out down here. Atleast the jackasses that own the Hawks are bleeding money, I do feel sorry for all the business's around the arena that are probably also bleeding money.
You are so mean!!!Here is a thought. Maybe the college basketball players should use there degree and get a job.
The NBA did nothing wrong. The NBA was moving until it hit its wall and instead of taking notice of that fact the NBA players actually thought that not moving and filing some lame excuse of a case against the NBA was a better option.
Saying this however, this kind of action just proves what I said last week. The employers ARE forced to bargain the way the union members want or face things like this. If anyone here didn't bargain in good faith it was the players.
...is that you in your avatar? because if so...:shock:
I wish I could put some sympathy out there for the parties involved or the fans, but I can't.
You do understand why the pay decreases were offered yes? As for the NBA being a monopoly, that is bogus. They compete against other sports for many of the same fans.
You are so mean!!!
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Bull****. What the owners did was give the players the equivalent of a ****ty deal. When the players backed away from it, the league painted the players as unreasonable. Stern and his media office are master manipulators of media perception.
In a battle between millionaires and billionaires, it's the billionaires that always win out. The players are just playing hardball at this point. The fact that you make comments like this tells me just how ill-informed your perception of the economics of the sport is. No matter how this ends, it's the owners that always win out.
you fan-hater.
I know. Lord knows you can watch old games, or....read a book.
They are forced to bargain in exactly the way the union wants. If that wasn't true it wouldn't matter what kind of deal they put on the table. It does though, doesn't it? You even admitted it. The deal was **** according to you, for what I assume is nothing more than they got less money then before. Is it a bad deal when the owners get less money, no, why would it be? Oh I don't know, because its the exact same thing. It would piss me off enough if they were just forced to bargain(they are) but they also have to give in to what the union want and that just throws me off the deep end of pissed. Freedom just goes right out the window so hard only because they own the business and that is it. Its bull****.
And don't tell I don't understand the economics. I do. The deal they made last time bit them in the ass and they needed to get some money back from the unions, but the entire time the players were playing stupid. At first it all was a lie, and then it was kind of a lie, and now they just don't want to talk anymore. Yeah, they showed a real ability to bargain in good faith. Bull****.
It's one hell of a strategy. The union has decertified itself, and is now going to file an antitrust action against the NBA.
IMHO, both the union and the team owners have bargained in bad faith, and the result is going to be that basketball players who are now in college are going to become used car salesmen, instead of pro ballplayers. The team owners will then be forced to recruit players from prisons, mental institutions, and Texas. :mrgreen:
Article is here.
Wow. Just wow. Do you even realize how the power relationships in these negotiations works? It's the OWNERS that ALWAYS have more leverage than the players. It's the owners that can survive the cancellation of a season, while many players can't. To paint the owners as victims in these bargaining sessions is either disingenuous or willfully ignorant on your part.
To say that the league has to bargain on the union's terms is complete BS.
As for the last contract "biting them in the ass." The players made large concessions in that deal as well. The players ALWAYS lose. Used to be that sports franchise ownership was about the love of the sport, and that owners would be willing to operate them at a loss because their other assets would offset the costs. Now, the owners want guaranteed profits, and in many ways the deal they are asking for is essentially one that shields owners and managers from suffering the consequences of their own dumb mistakes.
You do understand why the pay decreases were offered yes? As for the NBA being a monopoly, that is bogus. They compete against other sports for many of the same fans.
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