Kangaroo;4247189 said:
That is pretty funny since the Lockout was allowed to remain in the NFL after it was dragged along in the courts for what4-6 months. In the end the players caved on the financial part which the owners wanted. That was the main sticking point with NFL owners and they got it.
What is worse for the NBA they are not the NFL no one cares a lot of people I know call it thug ball. I think it is unfair because there are some really good players that are not like that but the NBA has embraced it in the past and that is what sticks in the older crowds mind.
The NBA is going to end up like the NHL and yes the NHL could go over seas and play but their is only so much money and spots and a lot of issues with Euro teams not always paying and stuff.
The thing about the NBA is that they started they just started the decertification process, they haven't even been given the go-ahead to vote on decertification by the NLRB if I remember an article from a few days ago. The NFLPA had already got its membership to vote for a possible decertification back in October of 2010.
They need 45 days or something before they can vote to decertify, and then they get to go through the entire process that the NFL did over 136 days of torture and reading one article today the NFL's process was very quick by normal standards.
The NBA already had a lawsuit in place months and months ago to fight decertification by saying that once the NBPA decertifies, any guaranteed contract is null and void upon the dissolution of the Player's Association that got the CBA under which the contracts were formed. If that goes forward and is rule on in favor of the NBA, it won't matter if the lockout is enjoined by a higher court, a whole lot of NBA players won't have a team to call home.
The article, or another I read, mentioned that NHL players have been pretty vocal to friends of theirs in the NBA. They said losing that one season was not worth it at all. Nobody in the NBPA is listening. The players will never get their lost wages back, and a few players will never play in the NBA again.
No sweat off my back. It's like watching a really slow car wreck between two people you don't like, and one of them is driving the car they borrowed from your ex-gf.
Come on, man!