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[QUOTE="DJR44, post: 75130, member: 879"]
"The owners own the basketball." End of discussion. They can pay whatever they want, If they want to enforce a hard cap so all the cities in this country have a chance to compete..I'm all for it.

Now the players have a choice. Don't play. They can find another league to pay them a tremendous amount of money that they would earn if they agree to the proposed 50/50 deal with all the restrictions. Wait one second...there is no other league.

OK they can go to Europe and play. Nope doesn't make sense won't make as much money in Europe ( save for a few superstars) so they can't do that.

OK they can barnstorm and play exhibition games...lovely but no money there.

The world is a lot different play than the last agreement and the league needs to put restrictions on the money and movement among the players so smaller cities can keep there superstars (like NFL). See with the so called BAD deal they are being offered they will make more money than  99% of the public. Can't feel bad for players they lose court of public opinion. Is this new deal worse than the last deal? YUP. TOUGH. Take it or leave it and if you leave it you will be come crawling back next year and you will earn less. Owners are dug in...gravytrain is over.
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