Garnett, Pierce, and Kobe May Have Teamed Up To Kill Deal

If Wyc is a driving force behind the owners hard line, and this report is true, does anyone else think this is not a good sign for our team morale next year?

Wait, I don´t really want an answer…

We will look back on this lockout fiasco as the time the NBA lost any remaining shred of credibility it may have once had.

They have no interest in a reasonable deal, just one that guarantees them big profits regardless of their management or market. The union really did a terrible job on PR though, the average fan believes David Stern is honest, and the players are greedy.

When KG’s on your side he’s a great guy and teammate. When he’s not on your side – he’s an a-hole. I think the players are crazy for following him into this mess. But I am glad because I hope it all comes crashing down and there’s no games for 2 years or more. I pray the owners stick it to the players. I want a hard cap, non guaranteed contracts and players that play every game hard. When they quit playing hard, cut ’em. Most of the players are way overpaid and the market needs a correction.

that the owners have done a great job with the media. Btw…that 50/50 split becomes 53% for the owners after 3 years..I.

Let the superstars sweat it out and find ways to make a buck going out of the country. With the first two weeks lost already, it’s not going to be the same anyway. So might as well go for the whole year and let the players come to the owners and initiate the discussion once again.

I made a point a few days ago that the league is run by its stars (and their snake-like agents) and most of them stopped book learning in 10-12 grade. Who in their right mind would send a passionate guy like KG into a labor negotiation? That is a sign of the players’ “inmates running asylum” status quo at the moment.

David Stern had very aggressive wants from the owners side, conceded down and has won the game of “Who is being reasonable” . The players totally missed the 3rd man in the room – public opinion. 50/50 sounds fair, regardless of the fine arguments of whether it is fair. Guaranteed contracts for dogs such as Mark Blount offend pretty much everyone. Players lose on that one. The owners’ allegation that so many teams are losing money and the fabulous wealth of these players doesn’t work for the players. Assuming, of course, that the owners aren’t taking huge depreciation and amortization to generate their “losses”. It is possible that they have tax losses but very good cash flow. But if that was true a smart Players Union would get that point out. So, either it is true the league’s owners are losing a lot of money, or it is true that the Players Union is full of dummies.
Game-Set-Match, players. You just don’t know it yet.

OUT : Derek Fisher, Billy Hunter

IN : Gilbert Arenas, Delonte West, Stephen Jackson, Joakim Noah

Why is their combined number of college years relevent to the discussion? I’m willing to bet that Kobe and Kevin learned as much academically in their first 3 NBA years as Paul did in the classroom…lol

None of these guys strike me as illiterate. None of them appear to have poor financial management skills. As a player, I’d sure as hell want them going to bat for me before Derek breach of contract Fisher.

That said, in Kobe, Paul, and Kevin’s position, they can probably afford to hold out a lot longer than most of their peers.

This is unraveling quickly for the players.

I wonder how much of this is true or it is that kind of things owners can drop off to gain momentum in the media.

I could care less about Simmons. He’s like every other sports writer of today and that’s opinionated, he needs his own gossip column. I would love for this lockout to end soon, but that seems less likely as I read different stories and quotes every week. With all that’s going on in this poor economy sports fans are less sympathetic, and could care less about millionaires and billionaires fighting over revenue and etc.

Let’s be real star players such as Kobe, Garnett, Pierce, Allen, Lebron, Wade, Bosh, Paul, Amare, Dirk, Rose, Melo, Rondo, Billups, Durant, Hill, Griffin, J.Johnson, V.Carter, Howard, Nash, Williams, Fisher, Kidd and others will not suffer financially from this current lockout. It’s only the role players and those that make league minimum will suffer. By the way I didn’t know league minimum is 5mil.

I think the star players are looking out for the interests of those players that make league minimum. Bill, might wanna mention that in his piece for future notice.