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Players and Owners End Lockout, Approve New Collective Bagaining Agreement

By ⋅ December 8, 2011 ⋅ One comment

After 161 days of mind-numbingly frustrating and utterly juvenile bickering between NBA players and owners, the two sides officially ratified the new, 10-year collective bargaining agreement. Finally, finally, the lockout is over. The Final Numbers WEEI.com’s Paul Flannery reported Thursday that the new CBA includes a $58.044 million salary cap, with a luxury tax level [...]

NBA Lockout Ending, Season Set to Open on Christmas

By ⋅ November 26, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

On the heels of Thanksgiving, NBA fans have one more reason to give thanks: Christmas came early this year. After meeting for over 15 hours on Friday, the NBA and the National Basketball Players’ Association reached a tentative agreement in the wee hours of Saturday morning to finally end the lockout after 149 days. Excluding [...]

NBA Lockout Rant: Sorting Out the Mess

By ⋅ November 17, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

What a mess this has become. Have two people ever deserved each other more than David Stern and Billy Hunter? First you have Stern who not only has no control over his owners, but he also has no idea how to sell an offer. Giving everyone the idea that his latest offer was an ‘Ultimatum’ [...]

NBA Canceled Through December 15: Is Damage Irreversible?

By ⋅ November 16, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

The NBA officially canceled games through December 15 on Tuesday, killing 26 percent of the season. The cancellation came on the same day that the NBPA decertified, with 15 players joining class-action antitrust lawsuits against the league. With players seeking over $6 billion in damages, it would take a very player-favorable deal to get everyone [...]

NBA Lockout Update: Games Cancelled through November

By ⋅ October 29, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

“It’s not practical, possible or prudent to have a full season now.” Not exactly the words NBA fans were hoping to hear from Commissioner David Stern at the end of Friday’s meetings between the players’ union and the owners. Following the latest breakdown at the negotiating table, Stern has officially cancelled games through November 30th, [...]

NBA Lockout Update: Bitter Edition

By ⋅ October 24, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

After over three months of stalled negotiations, the players’ union and owners brought in federal mediator George Cohen on Tuesday, Oct. 18, in the hopes his oversight could help the two sides resolve their stalemate and end the lockout. In the end, 30 hours of meetings over three days turned out to be just like [...]

NBA Players And Owners Meet At Negotiating Table

By ⋅ September 1, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

NBA owners and players met Wednesday for about six hours in an attempt to get the proverbial ball rolling at the negotiating table and hopefully lay the ground work for a new CBA. This was the first bargaining session since August 1 and only the second since the lockout was imposed. Union President and Lakers [...]

David Stern Talks to Bill Simmons About the NBA Lockout

By ⋅ August 18, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

It has been incredibly hard to find solid information on the NBA lockout these days. It still seems like the two sides are far apart, and to be honest it doesn’t look like either Billy Hunter or David Stern are taking the conversations seriously yet. Thankfully, David Stern was on the B.S. Report with Bill [...]

NBA Owners Lock Out Players At 12:01 A.M. Friday

By ⋅ June 30, 2011 ⋅ One comment

For those of you who see everything going on with the NFL lockout and think, “I need more lockout,” the NBA is set to feed your addiction. At 12:01 a.m. on Friday the NBA’s current collective bargaining agreement expires and the NBA owners informed the players association that the league will institute the second professional [...]

David Stern Speaks About Technical Rules

By ⋅ October 22, 2010 ⋅ One comment

NBA referees will be much more harsh with technical fouls. Referees are now encouraged to call techs on absolutely nothing, and fines and suspensions aren’t far behind. The game’s going downhill, especially with a new collective bargaining agreement to go over. What could possibly go down as the new rules create a kid game where [...]

Tech-Talk: How the New Rules Could Ruin the NBA

By ⋅ October 18, 2010 ⋅ 4 comments

The whistle from an NBA referee is an unmistakable sound if you’re a basketball fan. Regardless of whether you’re going to like the call or not, it means the game has to be stopped, everything has to be put on hold for a couple of free throws, a turnover, a timeout, whatever. What’s even worse [...]

Pierce’s Buzzer-Beater Has Celtics Thinking Sweep

By ⋅ April 24, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Paul Pierce scored 32 points, including a buzzer-beating 21-foot jumper, helping the Boston Celtics defeat the Miami Heat 100-98 at America Airlines Arena in Miami on Friday night. Through the first three quarters of the game, it was a familiar re-run episode of Celtics vs. Heat. Boston’s “Big Three” and Rajon Rondo, all in double-figures, [...]

NBA Threatens Criticism of Officials With Suspensions

By ⋅ April 24, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

NBA Commissioner David Stern is fed up with constant complaining about referees and officiating, calling it “corrosive” to the game. He is now threatening to suspend players and coaches who do so instead of the standard $35,000 fine. This announcement came in the wake of fines against Magic Coach Stan Van Gundy and Forward Matt [...]

Beasts of the East Defeat Best of the West in NBA All-Star Game

By ⋅ February 15, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

The Eastern Conference All-Stars defeated the Western Conference All-Stars 141-139 in front of the largest crowd to ever watch a basketball game. A record 108,713 NBA fans descended upon Cowboys Stadium to watch the best athletes in the world (the U.S. Basketball team – plus Dirk Nowitzki, Steve Nash, and Pau Gasol) put on a [...]

NBA Finals Award to be Named After Bill Russell

By ⋅ February 15, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

NBA commissioner David Stern announced Saturday that the award for the Finals MVP will be named after Celtics legend Bill Russell. Russell never won the award himself (the award was created late in Russell’s career in 1969), but was a 5-time NBA MVP. He won 11 World Titles with the Celtics as a player and [...]

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