No deal!!!

[Deng Defense Force]

Nba talks break down today with no deal and no more talks planned.

NBA lockout -- Talks break off early Thursday with none planned - ESPN

 

[RamiTheBullsFan]

14 months and 10 days until the 2012-13 season is canceled or the players finally realize how much they have to lose. They definitely won't figure it out by the end of the year.

 

[scottiepippen1994]

I don't know if I'm GLAD or MAD. I told you the season won't start until the Chinese Basketball season is over. J.R Smith will be back on TIME to sign on the dotted LINE....Hey, that rhymes....it must mean somthing.

 

[RamiTheBullsFan]

I don't know if I'm GLAD or MAD. I told you the season won't start until the Chinese Basketball season is over. J.R Smith will be back on TIME to sign on the dotted LINE....Hey, that rhymes....it must mean somthing.

If there isn't a deal by early January, there won't be a season at all. And there won't be. Start worrying about 2013.

 

[scottiepippen1994]

I can't wait for the players start there own league.....they will have to do somthing to pay off there millions of dollars in mortgages on there mansions and 500thousand dollar cars.

 

[bleacherbum54]

I can't wait for the players start there own league.....they will have to do somthing to pay off there millions of dollars in mortgages on there mansions and 500thousand dollar cars.

I would love to see them try they would fail miserably

 

[scottiepippen1994]

This definately hurts the economy as the unemployment line just got bigger. And during an election year..Barack Obabma may have to step in and do somthing about the NBA to be re elected.

One thing for sure, we will have plenty of more time to debate the "scottie pippen" topics on this forum.

Scottie Pippen was a franchise player.

 

[Deng Defense Force]

14 months and 10 days until the 2012-13 season is canceled or the players finally realize how much they have to lose. They definitely won't figure it out by the end of the year.

As mad as I am about missing games(especialy now that the Bulls are title contenders), I can't really feel too sorry for a bunch of millionaires arguing with a bunch of billionaires.

They may not realize how much money they are losing, but I will definately realize how much money I save by not going to games this year.

 

[Deng Defense Force]

I can't wait for the players start there own league.....they will have to do somthing to pay off there millions of dollars in mortgages on there mansions and 500thousand dollar cars.

I guess all those poor little guys have left now are their solid gold houses and rocket cars.

Well, atleast they do for a couple of months before they start missing payments.

 

[GaelicSoxFan]

I can't wait for the players start there own league.....they will have to do somthing to pay off there millions of dollars in mortgages on there mansions and 500thousand dollar cars.

Don't forget the babymommas.

 

[zack54attack]

You can say goodbye to a NBA season this year. No way in hell they get a deal done..

The players were offered a 50-50 split and didn't take it.. :smh:

 

[85Bears4life]

You can say goodbye to a NBA season this year. No way in hell they get a deal done..

The players were offered a 50-50 split and didn't take it.. :smh:

Players wont take a 50-50 deal...owners may have to give that up in order to make a deal

 

[scottiepippen1994]

Don't forget the babymommas.

Now that the players are currantly unemployed, how many of these ladies are going to file for divorce and become football wives with they gold diggin asses?

 

[bleacherbum54]

As mad as I am about missing games(especialy now that the Bulls are title contenders), I can't really feel too sorry for a bunch of millionaires arguing with a bunch of billionaires.

They may not realize how much money they are losing, but I will definately realize how much money I save by not going to games this year.

I'll save close to 3k maybe more.

 

[Deng Defense Force]

They should have put LeBron incharge of the meetings, he would have folded in the 4th meeting.

 

[zack54attack]

Players wont take a 50-50 deal...owners may have to give that up in order to make a deal

Won't happen.

Players better smarten up and realize that a 50/50 deal is the best they are going to get.

 

[Glide2keva]

The undertones are just unbelievable in this thread.

I'm glad the players are not settling. They already agreed to give back 4% of what they collectively can earn and that in itself is close 1 Billion dollars.

Siding with the owners on this is wrong and mentioning things like baby mommas is just incredibly ignorant.

 

[Glide2keva]

Won't happen.

Players better smarten up and realize that a 50/50 deal is the best they are going to get.

No, they should stand their ground. The owners need the players and 50/50 is a bad deal. he players should get more of the pie since there would be no league without them. The owner are being greedy and are trying to punish the players for their own stupidity.

I know some people have a problem with the players making as much as they do and we all know why that is, even if no one says so. But in this case, the players have the advantage, and I would hope that they do try to start their own league. People are forgetting that this situation wasn't brought on by the players. Yet people are blaming them out of what I see as jealousy.

The owners are at fault here. They see the league is getting popular and more money is being pumped into the league and they are greedy and want it all. The owners are trying to paint the players as bad guys, but this is their own fault.

 

[Fredsmooth21]

Not surprising. From everything I'm reading, it seems like the owners aren't going to budge until they get the deal they want. The people screwed in all this are nba fans. What dumbasses these guys are though. They are coming off one of the most successful seasons in years and then have a lockout.

And I don't blame the players in this. I blame the idiot GMs and owners. I read an article Henry Abbot posted after the movie Money Ball was released. He had a guy from an NBA organization saying that movie showed just how stupid some GMs are. He said in his organization their GM was going to give a guy who just blew out his knee a max contract. When he told him he blew out his knee, the GM asked him how did he know this? And the guy told him it's on Google, and the GM didn't know how to use Google lol. These players making inflated salaries are the product of stupid GMs giving them the money, and stupid owners hiring these idiot GMs.

 

[Glide2keva]

Not surprising. From everything I'm reading, it seems like the owners aren't going to budge until they get the deal they want. The people screwed in all this are nba fans. What dumbasses these guys are though. They are coming off one of the most successful seasons in years and then have a strike.

It is NOT a strike! The players are NOT, I repeat NOT ON STRIKE! This is an owners LOCKOUT, not a strike.

And I don't blame the players in this. I blame the idiot GMs and owners. I read an article Henry Abbot posted after the movie Money Ball was released. He had a guy from an NBA organization saying that movie showed just how stupid some GMs are. He said in his organization their GM was going to give a guy who just blew out his knee a max contract. When he told him he blew out his knee, the GM asked him how did he know this? And the guy told him it's on Google, and the GM didn't know how to use Google lol. These players making inflated salaries are the product of stupid GMs giving them the money, and stupid owners hiring these idiot GMs.

The blame should be squarely on the owners. They agreed to the 57% in 1999 and then they went out and started drafting scared and giving max deals to major busts and not building solid teams. Now they want the players to pay for their mistakes, akin to a bailout deal. The players were willing to give back almost a BILLION dollars to the owners, but they want more.

This is greed on the owners, not the players.