Crazy⑧s
Evacuee
This is a snippet from the letter:
The most recent meetings in New York were effective. What you have been told by your agents, representatives and the media is probably speculative and inaccurate.
What actually happened in those meetings was discussion, brainstorming and a sharing of options by both sides. The turning point this past Tuesday was not a disagreement between the players and the owners. It was actually a fundamental divide between the owners internally. They could not agree with each other on specific points of the deal and therefore it caused conflict within the league and its owners.
So it is our hope that today, Thursday, at the owners meeting in Dallas that they work out their differences, come up with a revenue sharing plan that will protect their teams and are then ready to come together and sign off on the agreement we as a smaller group deemed reasonable.
Read more: http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/215600/Fisher_Sends_Letter_To_Fellow_Players#ixzz1Y7vqLMgL
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So, according to Fisher at least, it's the owners that have stalled negotiations as the big and small markets struggle to find a common ground.
How it's taken this long to proceed only this far is beyond me.
He also eludes to player's agents being lackluster about the entire affair, and basically calls them out for their lack of influential presence.
☆NBA forum thread, but that the pulse rate on that forum is flatlining.