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Stern: NBA wants to drop player costs by ONE-THIRD

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Baron Scicluna, Oct 21, 2010.

  1. steveu

    steveu Well-Known Member

    Hey, I'm with BYH. I'd love nothing more than to see the NBA brought down a notch or three. As it is, I'm a huge college basketball fan. With all the college buckets on TV and the ratings that come with it, the NBA might want to think twice before killing the golden goose.
     
  2. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    NBA players have some leverage ... they can go play in Europe.
     
  3. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    I also saw where Stern is open to contraction. Now that I'm excited about.
     
  4. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    http://www.staradvertiser.com/sports/ferdswords/20100715_While_Stern_sings_the_blues_NBA_owners_spend_like_gamblers.html

    Ferd called this one back in July:
    $20 mil. for Darko Millicic
    $34 mil. for Amir Johnson
    $119 mi. for Joe Johnson

    And now they want cuts?????
     
  5. qtlaw

    qtlaw Well-Known Member

    And its all the player's fault?

    Do you think that ticket prices will take a huge fall and be rolled back to the 70's price levels because that's the contract values that the players will get? That money goes right into the owners' pockets. Prices will stay the same. Check any consumer product, when production costs drop, it takes a long time for prices to fall.
     
  6. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Although they talk about it, no major league sports commissioner will ever go along with contraction, because the minute a league contracts even one team, the market value of franchises will collapse faster and harder than the real-estate bubble.

    Sale value of sports franchises, above and beyond everything else, is based on the presumption the franchise will continue to exist. Once that's no longer guaranteed, it's Hindenburg time.
     
  7. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    Cooooool.
     
  8. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    Not true. In baseball, they usually hate both sides. And in the NBA's case, I think even the biggest curmudgeon will see a one-third salary cut as draconian, and would be mad at the NBA for denying them Lebron and Kobe.
     
  9. cjericho

    cjericho Well-Known Member

    it wouldn't come to that. but basketball is more like baseball than football. as long as they have decent union leadership, the players can wait out the owners. great RBs can play 6-7 seasons, great basketball players play at least 12 seasons. if the owners really want to play hardball, guys can go play in europe for a season. it's nothing remotely close to hockey. NBA stars are widely recognizeable in the US. they have the national deals on regular TV because people know who Kobe, LeBron, Shaq etc are.
     
  10. JC

    JC Well-Known Member

    Billionaire owners can crush the players if they want. You don't think NHLers played in Europe? Do you think that they want to play in Europe? The stars can play in Europe but what about the rest? They have import rules, the NBA is going to destroy the players this go round. After it's all said and done, fans will return, they always do.
     
  11. cjericho

    cjericho Well-Known Member

    yeah and what big TV contract were the NHL owners losing out on, the billions from Vs.
    they'll only destroy the players if the players let them. the players may not crush the owners, but if they just decide they can miss a season they'll win in the end. football is the only sport where the owners really hold all the cards. a season to those players is huge.

    The stars can play in Europe???? this isn't hockey. there are guys who sat at the end of the bench in the NBA who do play in Europe. the stars in the NBA aren't going to play in Russia, they weren't born there. LeBron and Kobe will go on talk shows or make guess appearances on sitcoms. the average players will go to Europe if they want. if the stars decide they don't want to sit out any longer, then the owners will destroy the players. but the players can hold out.
     
  12. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member


    With UA, you're talking about real talent (well, Fairbanks . . . eh) in a rising market.

    Is there a less-compelling regular season on Planet Earth than the NBA's, especially when you're
    talking about the junk teams? Lordy.
     
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