Occupy Lenox Ave.

[EvanZ]

Looks like we're going to have a season.

[Mike G]

After a deal has been finalized, how soon can teams start making roster changes?
And who wants to participate in season predictions here?

[EvanZ]

I heard Dec. 9 is when teams can start signing free agents.

I'm definitely up for doing predictions.

[huevonkiller]

Bob if you want to get cute we can.

This is somewhat wide sweeping, not necessarily correct, and even if true, completely irrelevant to the health of a new league.

Really, the fact that about 2 out of 3 basketball players go bankrupt within 5 years after retiring is irrelevant?

Remember the League would have to have the same kinds of salaries. Lol.

I wonder how quickly the league would implode if they followed your logic. A Billionaire could not even buy the Atlanta Hawks and did not have deep enough pockets.

Stop kidding yourself.

How is this an artificial market? People love basketball. People love watching basketball. People love watching professional basketball. People pay for that. These players are the supply, and they are very much in demand.

You are confused. If people loved basketball NBA players would easily be able to go to Europe or start a second league, but this was never a serious consideration.

The players are entitled to nothing, and if they can make more or just as much money with a second league then have at it.

I don't recall this. I recall most teams claiming to lose money, and yet after rigorous examination, it appears only a few do.

It seems 22 NBA teams lost about 450 Million Dollars, and 8 teams made about 150 million dollars.

What exactly is the "claim" here? Sounds like if you want to be an NBA owner which means spending hundreds of MILLIONS of dollars to buy a team, yes you're going to lose a lot of money for a while.

lol.. wat? You're politarding this forum? Strange. Talk about basketball, please.

Woops your bad, PPP and Gallup polls show that the Public has definitely turned on this Occupy movement.

Please stick to basketball because you're being pretentious. I am very well aware of the 270+ arrests, multiple murders, rapes, anti-semitic rants on Occupy Wall Street's watch. Maybe you should stop lecturing to me about what I can and cannot discuss. I consider this a serious subject.

[huevonkiller]

I don't think both sides are equally wrong here. The players have made all the concessions. Dropping from 57% of revenue down to 51% is a huge concession; and that's not enough for the owners? In most businesses over 50% of revenue goes to labor; over 60% isn't unheard of. And I don't buy that all these teams are losing money. If they are, they should prove it by opening up the books.

In most businesses Unions do not even exist.

Unions are mostly a byproduct of the Public sector. The Owners should be able to ask for whatever they want, and most NBA players are overpaid anyway.