mr gib
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at least the nhl has some company in the goopHasbro said:things aren't improving for the NBAUh Billy the NBA makes money. If the NHL can survive so can you.
at least the nhl has some company in the goopHasbro said:things aren't improving for the NBAUh Billy the NBA makes money. If the NHL can survive so can you.
Drury_Sakic said:all the more reason for the NHL to get a deal done NOW...
so that their sport is in full swing when the NBA starts getting dirty... and when MLB is getting its 10 year lockout ready....
Goodenow's preface that the PA will be getting a swing of the "power" in teh spring/summer....might be right(the reasons were wrong, but anyways)...
not that he gets power...just that the league might/should give a bit more to get a deal done as not to risk a 2 union war..
Hasbro said:After all the "Nobody notices hockey is missing" crap we've taken from flacks I am so rooting for a protracted work stoppage in the NBA. Modano's comments wouldn't make anyone blink compaired to the idiocy that will come out of the NBAPA>
And if Donald Fehr encouraged Goodenow to hold firm I can't wish enough misfortune on him for using our sport as cannon fodder for his roiders.
Oh I'm sure. I just want it to last awhile past the world series.MHA said:NBA players will back their union until X-mas time and then give in. We've already seen it, NBA players spend a lot of money and can't afford to lose a years salary.
futurcorerock said:Isn't the purpose of these caps to drop ticket prices and encourage fans to come back?
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Cawz said:I hear you man.
I think a lot of the people who dont like basketball dont play it, and so dont understand it. Kind of the same reason hockey isnt that popular. If you dont play it and you werent raised with it, you wont understand the finer points.
Everyone loves goals and body checks, slam dunks and blocks, but you have to be a real fan to understand cycling and pinching in from the point, pick n rolls and the timing of alley-oops.
If any real sports fan is tuning out the NBA playoffs right now due to their bias against bball, youre missing out on some great matchups.
I grew up watching it in the 80's as well and also lost interest in the mid 90s. The last few years have been more entertaining (this current series notwithstanding. It is intreguing though, each team being blown out on the road...)cw7 said:Aside from some rather bad injuries, I used to play basketball whenever I could as a teenager. I loved to play it, still do (though advancing age and past injuries catching up to me kinda limit how much I can play). But around the late 80s, early 90s I started to lose pretty much all interest in watching it. Myriad of reasons why. By the mid 90s it just became unbearable for me to watch.
Even the rare glimpses of basketball I see now, I can still spot if a player is not fundamentally sound or see gaps in offensive/defensive schemes (those haven't changed over the years, just been tweaked). Just lost my passion for the game, grew out of it. It happens, and I'm probably not the only one its happened to.
Time tends to play some interesting tricks on you.
HeShootseyScores said:MLB sees now that owners not caving at the last minute can bring about real change to their sport . . . the next MLB stoppage is going to be nightmare.
go kim johnsson said:Lest we forget....the NFL...their CBA expires after the 2006-07 I beleive but if a deal isn't done after this upcoming season they drop the salary cap.
Cawz said:I grew up watching it in the 80's as well and also lost interest in the mid 90s. The last few years have been more entertaining (this current series notwithstanding. It is intreguing though, each team being blown out on the road...)
There are many young players that are causing the NBA to be more entertaining the last couple years (since the deep Lebron draft).
Hockey could have an upswing as well, with the number of young superstars and the promise of a more open game. Hopefully that happens.
So ya, I'll stand by my quote from weeks ago. Mad respect, Reggie Miller.
Cawz said:I grew up watching it in the 80's as well and also lost interest in the mid 90s. The last few years have been more entertaining (this current series notwithstanding. It is intreguing though, each team being blown out on the road...)
There are many young players that are causing the NBA to be more entertaining the last couple years (since the deep Lebron draft).
Hockey could have an upswing as well, with the number of young superstars and the promise of a more open game. Hopefully that happens.
So ya, I'll stand by my quote from weeks ago. Mad respect, Reggie Miller.
And the fact that he played his entire career with the team that drafted him. 18 seasons with the same team! Will we ever see that sort of loyalty in sports again?joepeps said:Reggie Miller will be remembered for 3 things...
Playoffs,3-pointers, and his ears......
...with your whining? Yes.rekrul said:Is anyone else completly annoyed...
Cawz said:...because everyone knows hockey invented everything.