By Chris Sheridan
I went on the radio in Orlando this morning on 740-The Game to discuss what happens next in the NBA lockout, and I left out the part about asking President Obama whether he’d care to intervene.
I also referenced the unease I saw on the faces of the principle negotiators, which I wrote about late Monday night after I returned home from the failed lockout talks.
For those wondering what the next steps will be, for now it looks like this: Union director Billy Hunter plans to fly to California and then Texas to give briefings to his players on the state of negotiations, and commissioner David Stern said the owners will discuss where this thing will go next when they meet in New York later this month for the Board of Governors meeting. No new collective bargaining sessions are scheduled.
Click here to listen to the interview.
later this month? Its starting to look like neither side even wants a partial season. They might just wait till next summer to start negotiating again.
Once games were cancelled there was always going to be a cool down period before they met again. It’s ridiculous that they only cancelled 2 weeks as if they can save the rest. I’m starting to think the owners want to miss the entire season which is idiotic. I don’t think Chris purposely put out that optimism knowing it was false, but he couldn’t have been more wrong. I personally will be boycotting all things NBA for a while and I’m not sure I’ll go back if there is a partial season. This whole thing has really angered me, and the worst part of all is that it seems purely based on the revenue split. I could get behind system changes as the sticking point because contracts are out of control and the game suffers from contracts like Eddy Curry. But the issues that are causing missed games won’t stop those contracts, they won’t lower ticket prices, and they won’t stop the majority of my town from getting pissed off when the team gets $33 million dollars of city money of 3 years to help pay for the arena. It’s pure greed plain and simple and it makes me sick.