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Kevin Martin heads to the gym (and other lockout reactions)
Just like NBA fans, NBA players were shocked and excited early Saturday morning. (No, not like that. What is wrong with you people?) When a bleary-eyed David Stern and Billy Hunter sat side-by-side in...
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2011-2012 NBA schedule details leak: It’s a brick… house
Details have begun to emerge regarding the 2011-2012 NBA season, and we won’t complain because we’re getting a season and at this point they could play them in zero gravity in a tar pit and we’d be...
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Lakers, Mavericks, other big spenders safe for two years
Part of the reason we lost 480 NBA games this season is because a bunch of owners were pissed at the Lakers, Mavericks, Heat, Celtics and other owners willing to spend over the luxury tax. Small market...
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Monday morning one liners: Coming, going from Europe
With the end of the NBA lockout, NBA players are exiting Europe and heading back to the good ol’ US of A for an NBA season. What players are on the move are the highlights of our morning one liners. If...
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Expect just two preseason games per team in shortened camp
I will warn you now — those marquee Christmas Day NBA opening day games are going to be sloppy. Same with the likely dozen games to follow the next day and a lot of the games over the next month or so....
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NBA “stretch provision” may mean more bad contracts
We kind of refer to this as the Eddy Curry Rule. In the NBA labor deal is what is called the “stretch provision,” which will help teams get rid of underperforming players on big deals. It can only be...
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Billy Hunter outlines labor deal, steps remaining in memo
You have questions… but mostly they revolve around finding a way for your favorite team to trade for Dwight Howard or maybe Rajon Rondo. NBA players have questions about the new NBA Collective...
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Don’t go blaming the lockout when injuries pile up
Starting Dec. 9 when training camps open, guys are going to get injured. And when it happens you are going to inevitably hear an announcer or that fool down bar from you drinking Bud Light say, “That’s...
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Jeff Van Gundy warns you: It won’t be pretty come Dec. 25
It’s going to be sloppy. There are going to be missed passes and non-existent defensive rotations. There are offensive sets that will fall apart into isolation basketball. No summer workouts followed...
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Video: Talking rookie of the year with Chris Sheridan
Chris Sheridan of Sheridanhoops.com and I were on NBC SportsTalk (6 p.m. Eastern every day on Versus, but I don’t need to tell you that) and the twitter question of the day was about Rookie of the...
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Video: Taiwanese animators pretty much nail lockout
I know what you said when you woke up this morning: I wish some Taiwanese animators would explain the lockout to me in a minute and a half. Well, here you go. This is a pretty spot on breakdown — small...
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Latest legal hoop jumped through: players settle lawsuit
There can be no basketball until the new Collective Bargaining Agreement is approved and in place, and there can be no CBA vote until the NBA union is reformed (remember the “disclaimer of interest”),...
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It’s official — there is an NBA players’ union again
And to the joy and relief of us all, there is again an NBA players’ union. Actually, if you want to see NBA games on Christmas, it’s a good thing that a majority of NBA players voted to reform the...
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NBA league offices, union to meet Friday to seal deal
For once, there is no reason to dread the NBA owners and players getting together for a negotiation. Friday in New York the two sides will sit down to hammer out the details remaining on a labor deal...
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Owners get a new “LeBron Rule” in NBA labor deal
There was a whole lot about the NBA lockout that was really about LeBron James. About who has the power, the owners or players. But some things are more specific than others. Like this note from the...
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It may seem like it, but lockout does not equal more injuries
You knew this would come — the talk around the league that the lockout and shortened training camps had led to more injuries, more sprained ankles and more traumatic injuries. anecdotal evidence seems...
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Details emerge of league’s new revenue sharing plan
Revenue sharing was a big part of this summer’s Collective Bargaining Agreement talks, but the most secretive part. The owners wanted it to be something separate from the CBA itself, the players wanted...
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NBA owners not going to make profit this season, league says
If you believe the league’s numbers — and we’re still skeptical, to put it kindly — the NBA was a long way from turning a profit, they predicted a $300 million loss last year. A few months into the new...
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Quote of the Day: If you don’t think we’ll have a lockout again…
“We certainly didn’t achieve all we needed to achieve. I’ve said it multiple times that in the old CBA, financially, teams were drowning in 10 feet of water, now we’re drowning in two feet of water....
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Billy Hunter made $3 million last year, landed a 25 percent raise during lockout
USA Today discovered a department of labor filing with regards to Billy Hunter’s salary with the NBPA last year, much of which was spent during the lockout of the NBPA by the owners in the labor...
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