NBA labor talks broke down on October 20; No new meeting scheduled

Talks broke down, no new meetings schedule

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Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuu

I now regret buying 2k12. I can't get into that game without there being rookies or signings/trades that make the rosters different from last year. This simply sucks alllll the way around.

there is no god. the end is near

Oh, just cancel the f[COLOR="Black"]uc[/COLOR]king season already. Neither side is going to come to an agreement in a long time. It's going to be the same song over and over and over again; "Little to no progress made in recent talks" "Players and owners can't find agreement" "More game cancellations looming"

Everyone's getting sick of it, and quickly. Just put it out of it's misery.

Yeah there really isn't going to be a season.

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[QUOTE=hoopaddict08]I now regret buying 2k12. I can't get into that game without there being rookies or signings/trades that make the rosters different from last year. This simply sucks alllll the way around.[/QUOTE]
Same. Hoping the ability to edit classic roster teams comes sooner than later.

How the **** do you go from "more progress made" to a few minutes later "negotiations have broken down, no new meetings scheduled"?

[quote=AMISTILLILL]How the **** do you go from "more progress made" to a few minutes later "negotiations have broken down, no new meetings scheduled"?[/quote]

How do you have a 15 hour meeting followed by two other long meetings, and all of a sudden talks break down? I mean....really?

I'm just happy college basketball will be starting soon. Screw the NBA.

I think this year I'm going to really follow college basketball and the NFL. I honestly am losing interest in the NBA rapidly because these jackasses can't compromise and figure it out. Every time we get optimistic.. the talks break down.

**** college basketball I wanna see the Suns play

NFL|NHL|College ball. Everybody's "scouting" is probably going to be right on the money for this year's draft :oldlol:

Still sucks cause I'd rather have the NBA back.

Word to Candace Parker.

what the **** did the mediator do then?

reporters don't have a clue just like last years free agency.

[QUOTE]Silver: We made clear we were willing to go to 50 percent in an effort to compromise.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]
Silver: Union made slight move from 53 to 52.5 percent for players' share of BRI.[/QUOTE]

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

wtching the pressconference on nbatv. silver says the BRI split is one of the main reasons for the talks breaking down. owners are stuck on the 50/50 split

[quote=Theoo's Daddy]reporters don't have a clue just like last years free agency.[/quote]

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Spurs owner Peter Holt on NBA and union: "We've kind of worn each other out."

[URL="http://twitter.com/#%21/WojYahooNBA/status/127167826116091904"]10 minutes ago[/URL]

This wont go on for too long, the all-stars can hold out, but the little guys can't. There will be an uprising soon. The top guys are so damn greedy.

BTW, who wants to take KG away from Boston? Gimpy piece of crap makes $21 million. He deserves about 7 of that.

:facepalm :facepalm :facepalm :facepalm

I never even expected to have a season this year, but the players and owners should be ashamed of themselves. Disgraceful.

[QUOTE=Hondo]BTW, who wants to take KG away from Boston? Gimpy piece of crap makes $21 million. He deserves about 7 of that.[/QUOTE]

Woah, woah... let's not get emotional and say things we don't mean :cheers:

Don't worry Jeff said December 15th at latest.

[QUOTE=hoopaddict08]Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo[/QUOTE]

Shit

My quick summary of what happened today:

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I wouldn't be shocked to find out that this was just another ploy by the owners. Another stonewalling tactic in retaliation for the union only budging .5% on their end of the BRI. Negotiations will likely start up again in a day or two when Stern is feeling better and can be in attendance. If there is any validity to the claims of nearing an agreement on the MLE, it sounds as though bringing the mediator in is at least starting to pay dividends.

Derek Fisher says the Owners and NBA lied in their press conference. just 30 minutes before Fisher's and the players' union press conference began

Billy Hunter saying the owners had a 'take it or leave it' deal for the BRI

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Chris Bosh is not phased. WNBA tryouts next week, he's getting paid either way.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CABCIseO8Zo#t=0m51s[/url]

It's official. The NBA and NBAPA are trolling the fans. There's no other explaintion.....

The owners are so ridiculous IMO. Seriously the players are giving back 4.5 percent of billions of dollars and you want more? That covers their supposed losses and they still want more. Not to mention this whole system BS. They want to limit their own stupid decisions with a hard cap and they have the gall to say it's for parity. There can't be parity in sports... I mean you don't expect every team to be competitive all the time and it's not like the only teams winning are the big spenders/ big markets. And if they want balance it won't work out because there will always be better cities and organizations. I just wish that these guys would put this much effort into their basketball decisions instead of just trying to bully the players into some crazy new system. The players have literally made multiple concessions and the owners are like that kid in that commercial "... and?" Greedy bastards.

I was completely against decertification but I think it's probably the only way to get these jerks exposed.

Jeez...

/end rant

NBA should follow the NFL system so basically hard cap too, it is the best way to go.

But I am more excited College Basketball than NBA anyway but it sucks we won't have a nba season this year.

[QUOTE=Gundress]NBA should follow the NFL system so basically hard cap too, it is the best way to go.

But I am more excited College Basketball than NBA anyway but it sucks we won't have a nba season this year.[/QUOTE]

Stern knows what he's doing.. he's had experience with this before...

[QUOTE]On December 23, Stern announced that he would recommend canceling the season if there was no deal by January 7, 1999. [b]As Stern's deadline approached, the NBPA showed signs of division from within. Highly paid players were seen as the ones most affected by the disputed issues, rather than the union's membership as a whole.[/b] Agent David Falk, who was considered an influential voice for the players, represented NBPA president Patrick Ewing and nine players on the union's 19-person negotiating committee.[/QUOTE]

[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%E2%80%9399_NBA_lockout"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%E2%80%9399_NBA_lockout[/URL]

Stern knows who will fold first. The players have no leverage and he knows it.

From now on when I don't want to talk to some1 or argue with some1 I'm just going to start saying, "50/50 or GTFO"

I think it will catch on.

Fvcking Lebron, niqqa doesn't want to compromise cus hes scared as fvck.

[QUOTE]The owners proposed a 50-50 split on Wednesday. The players lowered their target from 53 percent to 52.5, Silver said, but the sides could not get any further. [/QUOTE]

Throwing away a season over 2.5%

Nice, players. You'll actually end up losing [I]more [/I]of your millions by not playing a whole season, compared to that 2.5%. But I think we know the real reason the players won't accept 50%. They're probably salivating at the possibility of a 16-team league next year with nothing but super-stars and no smaller market teams. Owners don't want that. They want a little thing called [I]parity[/I].

Watching the press conferences right now. Caught the tail end of the conference with Silver and Holt. Union is talking right now, saying that the owners lied about the negotiations and offered a take it or leave it deal.