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Re: Around The NBA
By: Phill23 Date: August 5, 2011, 1:16 pm
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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
By: Phill23 Date: August 5, 2011, 1:18 pm
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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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Re: Around The NBA
By: Phill23 Date: August 5, 2011, 1:20 pm
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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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Re: Around The NBA
By: Phill23 Date: September 22, 2011, 8:38 pm
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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
By: AndyMacFAIL Date: October 9, 2011, 5:20 am
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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:
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Re: Around The NBA
By: Phill23 Date: October 10, 2011, 12:22 pm
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Shaq needs to chill or else!!!
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Re: Around The NBA
By: Phill23 Date: October 22, 2011, 9:36 pm
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Guess this place will remain quiet until the lockout is over.
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Re: Around The NBA
By: Phill23 Date: October 31, 2011, 11:01 am
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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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Re: Around The NBA
By: Phill23 Date: October 31, 2011, 11:04 am
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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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Re: Around The NBA
By: AndyMacFAIL Date: November 11, 2011, 6:36 pm
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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:
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