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What Changes And What Doesn’t Heading Into the 2015-2016 NBA Season
The NBA makes a lot of important decisions during the Summer, behind the scenes of the summer league. Regarding the structure of the league, the seeding for the playoffs, whether hacking players remains relatively “worth it” for teams and other interesting conclusions and decisions.
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The NBA Lockout Nightmare – Month 5 and Counting
From hope to despair, from 53 to 47, from BRI to age limits, two years in college, hard caps and flex caps. And that’s not all. But after so many words, after a growing sense of optimism that blew up in everyone’s faces this week when Billy Hunter turned the latest offer down, the bottom line is that we’re over four months into the NBA lockout.
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NBA Lockout Gets Longer, Future of Season Gets Darker
The NBA season will be another two weeks shorter it seems, and the NBA Lockout keeps on going, steamrolling NBA Fans into apathy. Tyson Chandler calling the owners dictators, players being agressive in the media instead of shutting up and focusing on negotiations isn’t helping.
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No Hope of a Full NBA Season in 2011-2012
Nearly three months, and we’re still in the NBA lockout. Thursday labor talks between the owners and the NBA Players union didn’t get them and us anywhere, with too much dollars, percentages and other matters that just can’t be agreed upon.
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NBA Owners and Players Not Talking as Lockout Continues
The NBA lockout is nearly three weeks in effect, and there aren’t any meeting between owners, players or anything involving head honchos David Stern and Billy Hunter scheduled for the near future.
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The New and Improved NBA Lockout is Now in Effect
All roads were leading to this point, but not the owners, the players and the league did enough to stop it from happening. For the first time since 1998, the NBA has entered a lockout period and a very unknown future.
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With no Progress Made in Friday Talks, NBA Lockout Seems Inevitable
Numbers being thrown back and forth, cool T-Shirts from the players and the usual political words from David Stern. Bottom line – We don’t have a proposal, no agreement between the players and owners. The NBA Lockout is very near.
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As Owners and Players Present Proposals Hoping to Avoid Lockout, Eyes Turn to Friday
New hope or just glaring shots in the dark, aimed at nothing? Tuesday was the talk on friday – THE deadline. Now, we wait for friday, a day after the 2011 NBA drat, which hasn’t been getting the usual media coverage and talk it usually does. First of all, the talent pool this year isn’t as lucrative. Lockout notions are to blame. Sometimes, the talent isn’t that great. Although we can only be a judge of that in a few years I guess. For now, the future of the 2011-2012 NBA season is at hand.
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The NBA Lockout Draws Nearer as Owners and Players Wait for Tuesday
Despite the NBA owner making the first gesture, taking the issue of the collective guruanteed contracts off the table, the gulf between the players and the owner is wide and filled with hundreds of millions of dollars. Quite a gap to close, huh? Too big to stop the lockout, the first since 1999, from happening?