NBA.com is reporting that when all the math is done, the players' salaries will compromise less than their guaranteed 57% of BRI for the 2010-2011 season, the first time this has happened under the current CBA. This may not seem like big news, but it could have serious ramifications. For starters, the players will have about $160M due to them, 8% of their salaries.
There are two big takeaways here: First, the players will get a sudden infusion of cash. 8% of their salaries breaks down like this: A league-minimum guy making $473,604 would be due $37,882. The highest-paid player in the league, Kobe Bryant ($24,806,250), would be due $1,984,500. This means that even the most irresponsible members of the players' union, guys who spent every cent they've made to this point in their entire careers, they're going to be getting a fat check equal to 8% of their total salary for last season. If you're hoping for a quick resolution to the lockout, this isn't good news. At the very least, it's giving the players a longer window before they feel the pain of no paychecks. That pain was probably going to be the straw that broke the camel's back, now the players should be able to last longer before the short-sighted among them start making noise.
The second takeaway plays strongly in the owners' favor. Two factors contributed to the players' share being less than 57% of BRI: (1) Increased league-wide revenues and (2) Frugality on the owners' part. Taking a look at the contracts that were handed out last summer, I'd say the second part played a minor role. Meaning BRI raised, possibly dramatically, and the league as a whole still lost money, and probably a lot of it (the league's estimates put the losses at $300M). The players "proposal" was to drop the players' share to 54.5% and then have the teams share their revenues. It's ludicrous to think those concessions would even come close to bridging the gap.
Here's a fun game for you to pass the day:
- What will Gilbert Arenas do with his $1.41M check?
- Ron Artest with his $505K?
- Jason Kapono with his $531K?
- and so on.
As a fan I wouldn't mind cutting 25-40 games this season for the sake of making the league better. When it gets to that point the players will already feel the pain and start making concessions. I would love to see how strong the union will be when players like Gilbert Arenas won't be getting their 240k paychecks or when Ron Artest starts losing the $3.5 million he was expecting to make in the first half of the season.
Teams like Miami, NY, Dallas, and LAL will feel the pain because they won't generate revenue and they'll lose a year of their players' prime. I wonder if the revenue loss those teams endure will outweigh the stance the other owners will have.
do you think an owner like prokerov (spelled way wrong) of the nets would rather end the lockout so he has a better chance of signing deron (and the heat owner who wants to win a championship while his guys are still young as well)? Or are all the owners in it together to save money, not just the ones losing money. I would find it hard to believe they all want to have this lockout
The quote that stuck with me from NFL lockout was that the only thing all the owners can agree on is that they want to make more money.
I seriously doubt there's really one voice among all the owners, but I do believe a majority of the teams are losing money, and a deal won't be struck unless the new CBA rectifies that. Even if the knicks and lakers are fine w/ the current state of affairs, that's only two teams.
in unrelated lockout news, jrue holiday has a girlfriend(lauren cheney, plays for the USA womens soccer team)
ohhhhh man, pretty sure all of us may have to change our avatars to this now: http://twitpic.com/5pmd1s
oh my god
That is legitimately funny. Some people might get anal about the fact that he is "not using proper flag etiquette"
best thing I've seen today. haha.
go USA ladies, bring the cup back home.
About Brand and Rescue Dawn, I'd say that that movie's being good had a whole lot more to do with being directed by Wernor Herzog than with its being financed by Elton Brand. Tupac's director is Antoine Fuqua, most famous for Training Day, and more recently the director of Shooter (the bad Mark Wahlberg vehicle) and Brooklyn's Finest. Not an incompetent director, but not exactly one of the greatest directors of the past 35 years, as Herzog is.
Read today Brand isn't involved in the Tupac movie. And your point about the director making that movie good doesn't take anything away from Brand's job as producer. That's like saying a GM isn't any good, all he did was hire a great coach.
Well, I commend Brand for hiring one of the world's best directors; I'm just saying that, had he made Tupac with Fuqua, there would be no reason to think Tupac would come out well because Rescue Dawn came out well.
none other than the fact that he did a good job of pairing a director w/ a script in his previous film. Perhaps he, or his people, have an eye for that aspect of it.
I thought Christian Bale was really good in that movie, no surprise. Guy is going to die before age 50 with all the rapid weight loss/gain he does for his roles.
Seriously. The Machinist made me sick to my stomach.
still don't know how I feel about that movie. I definitely like it, but it's disturbing. Pretty crazy that the same actor was training with the routine of an Olympic athlete for American Psycho
American Psycho was the rare case where I liked the movie better than the book. I heard a funny line about him from that movie, something like he worked out for four hours a day so he made the director shoot him nude as much as possible to show it off.
A ton of great films have been based on bad books. For example, The Godfather, Vertigo, Some Came Running, The Earrings of Madame De...
The sale of the sixers to the Joshua Harris group has been formally announced as official as of today.
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/6767259/sale-philadelphia-76ers-joshua-harris-group
New ownership group of Sixers to keep playing at Wells Fargo Center despite not owning the building:
http://bit.ly/pD1zSV
So is Andre Iguodala the new Donovan McNabb
He's Scott Rolen. For all the criticism, Donovan was one of the best players in the NFL before he tore his ACL. He was also able to get out of the first round of the playoffs.
"I played for one of the biggest clubs in Europe," Childress says. "But there were still six- and seven-hour bus rides, we didn't stay at the best hotels and we flew commercial nine out of 10 times. And not all coaches care about your body. It's more military style. There's no getting tired. I'll be interested to see how guys' bodies respond."
A history of the Sixers' owners:
http://bit.ly/qXoEuk
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=6767648