GarbageTime wrote:
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If they players were following the logic outlined above SHOULDN'T they have taken a deal?
Haven't we reached the point were both parties have laid their cards on the table and said this is what i want and am willing to give in return?
And isn't it obvious that the NBA has more leverage at this point?
If i'm a player I take the deal and hope for a better economy the next time the contract is up. Just because we are giving on this one doesn't preclude us from getting more next time.
I know I'm not a player but it really frustrates me that these guys aren't getting a deal done. If I saw ANY source that said going to court was anything other than "unlikely" to go the players way, then I'd say yeah sure, you think you can get a better deal by taking it to a judge, go for it! But from what I've read whether everyone is saying the odds are not in the players favour.
If a friend of mine started playing russian roulette, I wouldn't sit back and not do anything, I would try really hard to get him to not do it, because it's too risky. If you lose, you lose to much. So you are darn right I want the players to take the deal. They are all going to lose money they will never get back, their will be players who (if the season is cancelled) will have player their LAST professional game in the NBA.
We are looking at 1 possibly even 2-3 seasons of NBA basket-ball lost. Players careers over, or missing out on their prime.
So saying the players are entitled to have as much freedom as they can get is totally fair. BUT I'm not got to sit idly by while I watch them make, what looks like to me, as a VERY VERY VERY bad decision and say, well if they want to make that stupid decision it's their right. I honestly wish, I had the opportunity to have a discussion with a handful of players and see what they really think, because I have SERIOUS questions about who is giving them advice if that person says that they can win in court.
I do know at the end of the day it is their right to decertify their union, but it really seems like such a bad idea.
It doesn't have anything to do with right or wrong, fairness or unfairness. The truth is that owners have the leverage. So stop wasting everyone time and your own money and take the deal.
Or cancel a season, possibly more. Putting all current guaranteed contracts in jeoprady, and if you lose, or give up half way through what just might be a war of attrition, the owners get to make WHATEVER rules they want with ZERO input from players.
on second thought, I'll take the second option
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