Old Timer......I have to give u big-props for your clairity of the situation
plus making some great points on the direction of a 50-50 split.
I agree with u on the public "us" being ignorant to the close-door negotiating
meetings since July 1st.
I dont know where to start.....there has been a 2 month strike on "Wall St."
b/c wealthy people are squezing the market the same way the NBA (30) owners
are trying to squeze the (450) players out of a few $100M per season.
When are the "wealthy" people in this country who pulled the majority
of their money out of the market in the past decade going to put
their money back into the market for the growth of this country? the
job market and employees has been decreasing each year for the past
decade, while the population of people has been widely increasing.
The last three seasons before the "Lebron James Decision" the NBA salary
cap kept being reduce each of those 3 season from the low revenue each
season. This was do to our country being in a decade of a great recession
from our "wealthy" people pulling their money out of the market (Martha
Stewart) do to the crises of the "Wall St." market taking big hits from the
chaos of so many multi-billion dollar crashes (like lined up cards falling).....
the downfall of our country billion $$$ energy company Enron, falling
World Trade Buildings, spending 250 billion on war in Iraq, the evacuation of
New Orleans & Louisiana, to 35% of the homes in this country in forecloser, ect., ect..
Im a regular ticket buyer (not Spike Lee) I get paid every two weeks, on
every other payday I spend my lunch break is in MSG to buy good (orange-
yellow) seat tickets to see star-player oponents vs Knicks.....Howard, CP3,
Durant, Rose, Duncan, Nash, Dirk, and Griffin....no matter how early I get to
MSG last year to buy tickets for the Knicks vs Miami, or Lakers, or Boston
games they were already sold out months in advance (even the upper-upper
seats). So that should answer why the star players should receive substantial-premium.
u and so many others have only been doing the math on 50-50 split, but no
one has yet been optimistic to believe in a 2011-12 increase in revenue
from the huge increase of the 2010-11 season revenue. Why is that?
The same way I could not get tickets months inadvance to see my Knicks vs
Lakers, Miami, Boston, b/c they were sold out imagine what its going to be
like in 2011-12 season for me to get tickets to see the "Mavs, OKC, Grizzlies,
Bulls, and the Cavs coach Byron Scott who beat us all 4 games last season
having 2 first round 2011 draft picks". The soft-cap paid off big-time
lastseason with the players receiving 57% of the revenue with brilliant
headcoaches getting the majority of the regular season wins over the
tandem & trio of star-players.
The Lebron, Amare, Bosh, Boozer, Butler, Chandler, Perkins, Gerald Wallace,
Carmelo & Billups (2010) move set a new stage in making the NBA future
teams better from watching the 2007-8 to 2009-10 trio of star-players
chemistry from Boston and Lakers.
Now it should be perfectly clear on how much u pay a player on their
performance vs the above star-teams oponents.....
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