well, bye.

Great job, NBA players. Instead of forsaking your desires of having a seventeenth car in the driveway, you've chosen to take away thousands of jobs from cities across the US. Ticket takers, parking attendants, food sellers, janitors. People who would kill for a few more quarters an hour. This proves all the more that you're all about the money, not about the game. fark you and your "professional" sport. You make me sick.

Oh, and basketball sucks.

Who cares? It's football season.

The soon to be defunct NBA.

I don't know how I'll get through the day if there's no NBA.

Drew Carey: Great job, NBA players. Instead of forsaking your desires of having a seventeenth car in the driveway, you've chosen to take away thousands of jobs from cities across the US. Ticket takers, parking attendants, food sellers, janitors. People who would kill for a few more quarters an hour. This proves all the more that you're all about the money, not about the game. fark you and your "professional" sport. You make me sick.

Oh, and basketball sucks.

You're not wrong, but there's more to it than just the players' greed.

Like, the owners' greed. The league's greed. etc...

Ho hum.

/Go Redwings!

yumpizza: Who cares? It's football season college basketball season.

FTFY

means noseasonthanxbye means alienated fans...means less pay in the future....

Enjoy your jobs at McDonald's!

And not a single fark was given that day.

I hope there is never another NBA game. A bunch of overpaid thugs. The players seem to be unaware that if the season is cancelled completely, and somehow they get 52% starting next year for 10 years, they are making less than the original 50% offer. Math is hard.

Since there isn't going to be Basketball this year, after the NFL season, The only sport for ESPN to report on is Hockey.

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Drew Carey: Great job, NBA players. Instead of forsaking your desires of having a seventeenth car in the driveway, you've chosen to take away thousands of jobs from cities across the US.

Yes, because it's the talent's responsibility to ensure that the business side has jobs for people. In related news, every office worker making >$X per year should take a pay cut so the office janitor can have a "few more quarters an hour".

Was looking forward to a Chicago sports Christmas double header, oh well.

Dumb move players.

ESPN must be pissed about missing the NHL contract.

Drew Carey: Great job, NBA players. Instead of forsaking your desires of having a seventeenth car in the driveway, you've chosen to take away thousands of jobs from cities across the US. Ticket takers, parking attendants, food sellers, janitors. People who would kill for a few more quarters an hour. This proves all the more that you're all about the money, not about the game. fark you and your "professional" sport. You make me sick.

Oh, and basketball sucks.

Should they be good little [redacted] and do what the man tells them for what the man wants to give them?

Such a black day for the sport. A dark, black day. Why is the NBA full of such big dicks?

Well, all that cocaine isn't going to snort itself.

Now that the union is defunct does it mean that the teams can hire non-union scabs without collective bargaining privilages?

He had been also been trying to sell publicly the benefits of the N.B.A.'s latest offer.

Looks like one of the players has already landed a new position as a NYT editor.

oukewldave: I hope there is never another NBA game. A bunch of overpaid thugs. The players seem to be unaware that if the season is cancelled completely, and somehow they get 52% starting next year for 10 years, they are making less than the original 50% offer. Math is hard.

Came here to say this. These players are idiots.

Won't someone please think of the millionaires!?

Seriously lol'ing at the talk of anti-trust proceedings. You play the game of basketball, FFS. You're not doctors or pilots or captains of industry. Morons...

netweavr: ESPN must be pissed about missing the NHL contract.

Well, really now, in what sort of crazy scenario would anybody actually be watching hock....

Oh.

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I for one hope this leads to people supporting local high school and college teams instead. Why support professionals with $10 beverages when you can instead make sure your local teams have jerseys, can go on trips, and have equipment? Local teams provide far more social value than the overpaid buffoons on both sides of this argument.

If you follow the only other precedent from a professional sport canceling a season (2004-5 NHL), it just means they're going to sign off an a deal which is even worse for them next season.

at least they will all have quality educations, experience and a polished skill set to offer the market place. Able to continue their high standard of living indefinitely.

I guess Kobe's $170,000,000 contract with the Lakers is just not enough money.

You would think that in an economy which sees an unemployment rate of 9.3 percent, that these filthy rich bastages would be a little reasonable when it comes to renewing their lucrative contracts.

You get to play basketball for a living. Do you understand that?

I would easily leave my day job and take a pay cut if I could do my hobby every day, and I make less than the median wage in America.

You greedy farks.

To all those who say "who cares": I care. I'm happy about this. I hope this is the final nail in the NBA's coffin and the end of David Stern's career.

germ78: well, bye.

Drew Carey: Great job, NBA players. Instead of forsaking your desires of having a seventeenth car in the driveway, you've chosen to take away thousands of jobs from cities across the US. Ticket takers, parking attendants, food sellers, janitors. People who would kill for a few more quarters an hour. This proves all the more that you're all about the money, not about the game. fark you and your "professional" sport. You make me sick.

Oh, and basketball sucks.

yumpizza: Who cares? It's football season.

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Heamer: Add me to the tiny list of "who gives a f*ck?".

AAAAAAAAAALLLL of these

IAmRight:
Indeed. They clearly should just take whatever the owners offer them. After all, the owners are the ones that are locking them out and made an offer that attempts to take away billions from the players over the next few years.

Aren't around 1/3 of the teams losing money each year?

Man, the NBA player's union really annoys me