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Looking Ahead to the Lockout
July 20th, 2010 | Author: admin
If the past 2 weeks of conversation out in Vegas are to leave any indication of the NBA’s future, professional basketball fans across the country should have their seat belts fastened, table trays put away and seats returned to the upright and locked position. Negotiations as the new Collective Bargaining Agreement approaches are sure to be turbulent with major delays (in actually regular season playing time no less) seemingly inevitable at this point. Early figures released by commissioner David Stern’s office report that the league lost an estimated $370 million over the course of last season. The players union disputes this figure, claiming the league’s figures could be off by as much as – get this –$370 million. For those keeping track at home, that’s exactly 100% of the approximated total, meaning all negotiations will be more or less starting from scratch. Though the NHL, MLB, NFL and NBA have experienced stoppages of play at the hands of financial disputes before, the disparities between contentions of the players and owners may have never been so bleak. Read the rest of this entry »