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Re: Around The NBA
« Reply #15 on: June 13, 2011, 04:54:03 pm »
TRIPLE LOL ALL DAY LONG!!!

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Re: Around The NBA
« Reply #16 on: June 29, 2011, 03:09:42 pm »
Tyson Chandler takes more than a $1.9 million loss on his Chicago area home:



Former Bull sells Northfield home for less than half his cost

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Only in Cub-dumb would a CEO be allowed 7 extra failed years beyond his original five-year plan before he was sh*t-canned.

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« Reply #17 on: July 06, 2011, 02:31:19 pm »
Guess he needed the dough badly!!!

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Re: Around The NBA
« Reply #18 on: August 05, 2011, 01:11:01 pm »
Besiktas Offer for Kobe Bryant too Low?

As confirmed exclusively to Sportando, the first meeting between Rob Pelinka, agent of Kobe Bryant and Besiktas was an acquainting one. Both sides presented their view's of the situation. Besiktas also made a first official proposal to Kobe Bryan but the offer, at the moment, is not at the level that Kobe and his agents will accept. In the next days, by the end of the week, there should be a second meeting where Besiktas will raise the proposal for the Lakers' star trying to convince him to land in Turkey and play along with Deron Williams. Kobe did not attend the meeting.

http://www.sportando.net/eng/usa/nba/30193/kobe_bryant_the_first_proposal_of_besiktas_is_too_low.html

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« Reply #19 on: August 05, 2011, 01:15:05 pm »
Source: NBPA to Seek Dismissal of NBA Suit

Officials from the National Basketball Players Association huddled Thursday and decided to file a motion to dismiss the NBA's federal lawsuit, a move that likely will come in the next 7-10 days, sources told CBSSports.com.

The decision is hardly stunning, considering attorney Jeffrey Kessler's strident rejection of the basis for the league's suit, which seeks declaratory judgment from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that the lockout is legal. Also, the NBA is seeking protection on antitrust grounds from a possible decertification by the players (or disclaimer of interest to represent them by the union) and has proclaimed its intention to void all existing contracts if the NBPA dissolves.


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Re: Around The NBA
« Reply #20 on: August 05, 2011, 01:16:33 pm »
Chandler on Mavs Deal: 'We're So Far Apart'

A few weeks after the excitement of winning it all, (Tyson) Chandler is relaxing at home, and considering the lockout, which coincides with the first unrestricted free agency of his career.

(Question) In late June, after the title, the Mavericks had a period when they could have negotiated a new contract with you before the lockout. What happened?

(Chandler) We talked about getting something done before the lockout, but it just didn't happen. ... we were so far apart, we might as well not have even met.



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Re: Around The NBA
« Reply #21 on: August 05, 2011, 01:18:14 pm »
Carlisle's Future Appears Safe in Dallas

Dallas Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle has one season remaining on his four-year contract worth $17.5 million.

Coming off winning the franchise's first NBA title in six games against the star-laden Miami Heat, Carlisle and the Mavs have not begun discussions on an extension. Shortly after the Finals, owner Mark Cuban and Carlisle declined to discuss his contract status.

On Thursday, president of basketball operations Donnie Nelson said Carlisle has nothing to worry about it.

"I will say that Rick is, obviously in our mind, a long-term fix here. So, when that time comes we'll sit down and certainly talk about it."



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« Reply #22 on: August 05, 2011, 01:20:46 pm »
Knicks Owner Sings 'Fix the Knicks'

New York Knicks owner James Dolan has lorded over a franchise that has experienced one of the more embarrassing decades in NBA history. His solution to fixing those problems apparently includes recording a song called "Fix the Knicks" with his blues band JD & The Straight Shot, an actual band that opened for Aretha Franklin.



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« Reply #23 on: September 22, 2011, 08:38:18 pm »
Sources: NBA to postpone training camp

Ric Bucher/ESPN The Magazine
September 22, 2011, 7:50 PM ET


The NBA is expected to announce Friday it will postpone the start of training camp and the opening slate of exhibition games after a negotiating session Thursday in New York between players union executive director Billy Hunter and commissioner David Stern ended without a labor agreement or progress toward one soon, league sources said.

Stern, according to one source, told Hunter in Thursday's meeting the owners want to reduce the players' cut of basketball-related revenue to a figure well below 50 percent. Under the previous agreement, which expired July 1, the players were guaranteed a minimum of 57 percent of basketball-related revenue would be spent on salaries.

In negotiations, the players' union had offered to reduce its percentage to as much as 54 percent to accommodate the owners' contention they lost $300 million last season, with the stipulation that a mechanism would be instituted to reward the players if future revenue increased.

The next negotiating session has not been scheduled, but the two sides agreed to contact each other with possible dates to reconvene next week, sources said. Whenever a deal is struck, it is expected to take at least two weeks to write out the complete terms and hash out the finer points.

A period for free agency and then a training camp, however truncated, also would be necessary before the regular season could begin. Most experts agree a minimum of four weeks is necessary to get it done, making the last week in September the absolute deadline for a deal to be struck before regular season games would have to be postponed or canceled.

Stern acknowledged Thursday that "the calendar is not our friend" when it comes to keeping the NBA season intact.

The league is at about the same point as when it postponed training camps in 1998, the only time it lost games to a work stoppage. The decision then came on Sept. 24 for camps that were set to begin Oct. 5. This year, players would be expected to report Oct. 3.

The regular season is scheduled to open Nov. 1, with the defending champion Dallas Mavericks hosting the Chicago Bulls. Though both sides have repeatedly said there is still time for a deal that would leave the regular season unaffected, neither would say so Thursday -- with union president Derek Fisher of the Los Angeles Lakers using virtually the same words as Stern about the coming weeks.

"I don't have control of that part of it, that would be more of a commissioner Stern, Adam Silver question in terms of logistics of starting the season on time," Fisher said. "I'm not going to try and make a guess on that one. The calendar's obviously not our friend, but we're not going to give up on the process because of the time."

Asked again if he thought things were far enough along to still believe in a Nov. 1 start, Stern said: "I don't have any response to that. I just don't. I don't know the answer."

Stern celebrated his 69th birthday Thursday but didn't appear in a festive mood after meeting for about five hours with leaders from the union. He was joined by Silver, the deputy commissioner, Spurs owner Peter Holt, who heads the labor relations committee, and NBA senior vice president and deputy general counsel Dan Rube. Fisher, Hunter, attorney Ron Klempner and economist Kevin Murphy represented the union.

Those small groups had good talks in recent weeks, but things went poorly last Tuesday when they were rejoined by their full committees. Hunter said after that meeting that players planned to make a "significant" financial concession, only to find that owners refused to agree to their condition of leaving the current salary cap system as is.

Fisher said he didn't believe Thursday's talks moved the situation beyond where it was last week.

Stern said the owners' labor relations committee would talk Friday, and both sides said they hoped to meet again next week.

"We'll keep working at it until we figure this thing out, but right now there isn't anything to really report or say," Fisher said. "I don't have any answers to any questions, other than we'll keep working until we find some solutions."

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Re: Around The NBA
« Reply #24 on: October 09, 2011, 05:20:02 am »
Shaquille O'Neal wages war against a Miami computer geek

One sunny afternoon in summer 2008, Miami computer consultant Shawn Darling was summoned to the 64,000-square-foot Orlando palace of his boss, basketball star Shaquille  O'Neal.
     
When Darling arrived at the mansion, he recalls, the 36-year-old, seven-foot-one, 330-pound colossus was dropping big beads of panicky sweat.

With his wife and kids away, the future Hall of Fame NBA center, who had recently been traded from the Miami Heat to the Phoenix Suns, explained his dilemma.

An Atlanta woman had just claimed in court that O'Neal was stalking her. A potential civil lawsuit hinged on threatening emails she said he had sent.

In a restraining order obtained in Georgia court, 23-year-old Alexis Miller claimed that since they had broken up, O'Neal enjoyed calling her and breathing Darth Vader-style into the phone. When she demanded that he identify himself, he would instead mutter in his recognizable basso: "Bitcch. Ho."

story continued at:   http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2011-09-22/news/shaquille-o-neal-wages-war-against-shawn-darling-an-ex-con-computer-geek/

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Re: Around The NBA
« Reply #25 on: October 10, 2011, 12:22:17 pm »
Shaq needs to chill or else!!!

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Re: Around The NBA
« Reply #26 on: October 22, 2011, 09:36:51 pm »
Guess this place will remain quiet until the lockout is over. 

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« Reply #27 on: October 31, 2011, 11:01:55 am »
Source: NBA May Move off 50% BRI Split

Talks have broken off abruptly on the last two occasions when the owners drew a line on the balance sheet at a 50-50 split. (It’s a semantical fool’s errand to argue whether union executive director Billy Hunter put up the stop sign when he refused to go below 52.5 percent.)

But there is word from at least one team source that the league could make a new move to solve the dispute.

“I think 50 percent was the number for that day,” he said. “I think there might be another move.”


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« Reply #28 on: October 31, 2011, 11:04:11 am »
Sources: 78-Game Season Still Possible 

The revised schedule listed yesterday on the Knicks’ website is as misleading as NBA commissioner David Stern’s optimistic tone Thursday night.

Following Stern’s hatcheting of November’s games following another NBA negotiation breakdown, coach Mike D’Antoni’s club’s season-opener is now listed as Milwaukee on Dec. 2 at the Garden, beginning a 68-game slate.

Even if there are no further cancellations and if the sides settle next week, the list and number of games on team websites are inaccurate.

Stern proclaimed officially Friday there is no longer a chance of squeezing in an 82-game schedule with a Dec. 1 starting date. However, multiple sources predict a 78-game slate will be staged if the sides compromise on the revenue split by next weekend. The final schedule has to be an even number, sources said.

“Anything is possible,” one union source said. “If the handshake is a week later, it’s a week less of games.”

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« Reply #29 on: November 11, 2011, 06:36:42 pm »


Jerry Krause, Johnny Bach new Hall of Fame nominees

Jerry Krause, the general manager for six Bulls championship teams, and Johnny Bach, assistant coach for three, are new nominees for the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame's Class of 2012, league sources said. NBA.com first reported the news.

Krause, currently a scout for the Arizona Diamondbacks, spent 18 seasons with the Bulls and earned NBA Executive of the Year honors following the 1987-88 and 1995-96 seasons.

rest of story: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/breaking/chi-krause-bach-new-hall-of-fame-nominees-20111111,0,5577201.story


Only in Cub-dumb would a CEO be allowed 7 extra failed years beyond his original five-year plan before he was sh*t-canned.