DIR Return Create A Forum - Home
---------------------------------------------------------
Chicago Bulls Central
HTML https://chicagobullscentral.createaforum.com
---------------------------------------------------------
*****************************************************
DIR Return to: Chicago Bulls Central
*****************************************************
#Post#: 231--------------------------------------------------
Re: Around The NBA
By: Phill23 Date: November 12, 2011, 3:23 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
Krause won't get in.
#Post#: 238--------------------------------------------------
Re: Around The NBA
By: Phill23 Date: November 26, 2011, 3:09 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
Tentative NBA labor deal reached
NBA owners and players reached a tentative agreement early
Saturday to end the 149-day lockout and hope to begin the
delayed season on Christmas Day.
Neither side provided many specifics but said the only words
players and fans wanted to hear.
"We want to play basketball," NBA commissioner David Stern said.
After a secret meeting earlier this week, the sides met for more
than 15 hours Friday, working to try to save the season. This
handshake deal, however, still must be ratified by both owners
and players.
Stern said it was "subject to a variety of approvals and very
complex machinations, but we're optimistic that will all come to
pass and that the NBA season will begin Dec. 25."
Barring a change in scheduling, the 2011-12 season will open
with the Boston Celtics at New York Knicks, followed by Miami at
Dallas in an NBA Finals rematch before MVP Derrick Rose and
Chicago close the tripleheader against Kobe Bryant and the
Lakers.
President Barack Obama gave a thumbs-up when told about the
tentative settlement after he finished playing basketball at
Fort McNair in Washington on Saturday morning.
The league plans a 66-game season and aims to open training
camps Dec. 9. Stern has said it would take about 30 days from an
agreement to playing the first game.
"All I feel right now is 'finally,' " Dwyane Wade told The
Associated Press.
Multiple league sources confirmed to ESPNLosAngeles.com's Dave
McMenamin that the NBA All-Star Game would be held in Orlando as
scheduled, though a date has yet to be finalized.
Just 12 days after talks broke down and Stern declared the NBA
could be headed to a "nuclear winter," he sat next to union
executive director Billy Hunter to announce the deal.
"We thought it was in both of our interest to try to reach a
resolution and save the game and to be able to provide the kind
of superb entertainment the NBA historically has provided,"
Hunter said.
A majority on each side is needed to approve the agreement. The
NBA needs votes from 15 of 29 owners. (The league owns the New
Orleans Hornets.)
Stern said the labor committee plans to discuss the agreement
later Saturday and expects them to endorse it and recommend to
the full board.
The union needs a simple majority of its 430-plus members. That
process is a bit more complicated after the players dissolved
the union Nov. 14. Now, they must drop their antitrust lawsuit
in Minnesota and re-form the union before voting on the deal.
Because the union disbanded, a new collective bargaining
agreement can be completed only once the union has re-formed.
Drug testing and other issues still must be negotiated between
the league and the players.
"We're very pleased we've come this far," Stern said. "There's
still a lot of work to be done."
Participating in the talks for the league were Stern, deputy
commissioner Adam Silver, Spurs owner Peter Holt, the chairman
of the labor relations committee, and attorneys Rick Buchanan
and Dan Rube.
The players were represented by executive director Billy Hunter,
president Derek Fisher, vice president Maurice Evans, attorney
Ron Klempner and economist Kevin Murphy.
Owners locked out the players July 1, and the sides spent most
of the summer and fall battling over the division of revenues
and other changes owners wanted in a new collective bargaining
agreement.
They said they lost hundreds of millions of dollars in each year
of the former deal, ratified in 2005, and they wanted a system
where the big-market teams wouldn't have the ability to outspend
their smaller counterparts.
Players fought against those changes, not wanting to see any
teams taken out of the market when they became free agents.
"This was not an easy agreement for anyone. The owners came in
having suffered substantial losses and feeling the system wasn't
working fairly across all teams," Silver said. "I certainly know
the players had strong views about expectations in terms of what
they should be getting from the system. It required a lot of
compromise from both parties' part, and I think that's what we
saw today."
But it was never easy. The day required multiple calls with the
owners' labor relations committee, all the while knowing another
breakdown in talks would mean not only the loss of the Christmas
schedule, but also throw the entire season in jeopardy.
Stern said that despite some "bumps" Friday evening, "the
greater good required us to knock ourselves out and come to this
tentative understanding."
He denied the litigation was a factor in accelerating a deal,
but things happened relatively quickly after the players filed a
suit that could have won them some $6 billion in damages if the
court ruled the lockout was illegal.
"For us the litigation is something that just has to be dealt
with," Stern said. "It was not the reason for the settlement.
The reason for the settlement was we've got fans, we've got
players who would like to play and we've got others who are
dependent on us.
"And it's always been our goal to reach a deal that was fair to
both sides and get us playing as soon as possible, but that took
a little time."
And led to the second shortened season in NBA history, joining
the 1998-99 lockout that reduced the schedule to 50 games. This
time the league will miss 16 games off the normal schedule.
#Post#: 241--------------------------------------------------
Re: Around The NBA
By: Phill23 Date: December 8, 2011, 9:17 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
Source: Chris Paul to Lakers in peril?
ESPN.com news services
The Los Angeles Lakers trade to obtain New Orleans Hornets point
guard Chris Paul for Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom has hit a snag,
sources tell ESPN.com's Marc Stein.
Sources said that a group of NBA owners, assembled in New York
for the ratification of the league's new labor pact with the
players, protested vigorously that the league-owned Hornets were
trading Paul to the star-studded Lakers and convinced NBA
commissioner David Stern to intervene.
"The deal is off," one source told ESPN.com.
The Houston Rockets were the third team in the trade and would
have obtained Gasol from the Hornets in return for Luis Scola,
Kevin Martin, Goran Dragic, and a 2012 first-round pick that
Houston received from the New York Knicks, sources said.
Paul can opt out of his current contract with New Orleans after
this season, and the Hornets have been fielding trade offers in
an effort to acquire new players for the star guard rather than
letting him walk in free agency.
Paul averaged 15.8 points and 9.8 assists last season.
The Rockets, who lost Yao Ming to retirement, coveted the 7-foot
Gasol, while the Hornets didn't, a source told ESPN The
Magazine's Ric Bucher.
Furthermore, the Rockets have the rebuilding pieces Hornets
general manager Dell Demps wanted in a trade for Paul -- namely,
young talent such as Martin and the 2012 first-round draft pick,
the source told Bucher.
Speaking earlier Thursday, Hornets president Hugh Weber said the
franchise has been preparing for months for the possibility that
Paul would resist signing an extension in New Orleans, a move
that would all but force a trade.
"We've been preparing for this moment for over a year and it's
not like we were surprised or caught flat-footed," Weber said.
"This is not a surprise. This is not something where we've been
sitting around waiting to see what would happen. We've been
managing this and taking control of the situation as best we can
and we're going to have a team that we believe achieves that
objective of making this community proud."
While he never said publicly that he wanted to play in a larger
market, he did say before last season that he wants to play for
a team that has a chance to contend for a title right away --
something he should get if he joins Kobe Bryant and the Lakers.
The Hornets have been owned by the NBA since last December, when
the league bought the club from founder George Shinn.
Despite the lockout and uncertainty over Paul's future, fan
support has been building in New Orleans, where the team has
advertised their season-ticket drive as an effort to lure a
permanent local buyer who is committed to keeping the team in
Louisiana.
The Hornets have increased their season ticket base from a
little more than 6,000 last season to just over 10,019 as of
Thursday afternoon.
Owners and players ratified a new collective bargaining
agreement Thursday, the final step to ending the five-month
lockout and paving the way for training camps and free agency to
open Friday.
There was hope in small markets like New Orleans that after the
lockout it would be easier for teams to hold on to their biggest
stars. However, that apparently is not the case.
If this deal is approved one of the NBA's biggest stars from the
league-owned small-market Hornets will be moving to one of the
NBA's largest, richest markets.
Paul was drafted by the Hornets fourth overall out of Wake
Forest in 2005.
#Post#: 273--------------------------------------------------
Re: Around The NBA
By: Phill23 Date: February 1, 2012, 3:30 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
Kenyon Martin Choosing New Team Soon?
Kenyon Martin is expected to decide by this weekend which NBA
team he’ll join, league sources told Yahoo! Sports. The Los
Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers, Miami Heat, San Antonio
Spurs, Atlanta Hawks and New York Knicks have expressed interest
in signing the veteran forward.
Martin signed with Xinjiang Gyang Hui of the Chinese Basketball
Association, but has since returned to the United States. He’s
not eligible to sign with an NBA team until Xinjiang’s season
ends, which could be as soon as Feb. 16.
Martin, 34, has visited with as many as five teams over the past
two weeks and has another meeting scheduled Wednesday, sources
said. He averaged 8.6 points and 6.2 rebounds in 48 games with
the Nuggets last season. Martin wants to join a winning team
that gives him consistent minutes
#Post#: 274--------------------------------------------------
Re: Around The NBA
By: Phill23 Date: February 1, 2012, 3:31 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
Nets’ Williams Considers Picking Up Option
Of all the possibilities for Deron Williams this summer, the one
that has rarely been brought up is the option that would pay him
the most money.
It’s been assumed Williams wouldn’t pick up his one-year, $17.8
million option because he could get a four or five-year deal if
he becomes a free agent. But the point guard didn’t rule it out
when asked Monday.
“Yeah (picking up the option is something I’m considering). I
don’t know what I’m going to do,” he told the Daily News. “At
the end of the season, I’m going to figure out what’s going on,
I’m going to sit down with my agent and look at every option
possible.”
#Post#: 275--------------------------------------------------
Re: Around The NBA
By: Phill23 Date: February 1, 2012, 3:33 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
Toronto May Extend Offer to Chandler
When Wilson Chandler returns from China in the next few weeks,
he will be a restricted free agent. The Denver Nuggets can match
any offer that Chandler receives, but that won’t stop the
Toronto Raptors from pursuing the 24-year-old.
Toronto is expected to make a large offer to Chandler, according
to multiple sources close to the situation. The Raptors will
have to wait for the Chinese Basketball Association’s season to
end before they can attempt to sign the small forward.
Chandler’s team, Zhejiang Guangsha, is on pace to make the
playoffs, which means he won’t be available until Zhejiang is
eliminated from the postseason.
#Post#: 276--------------------------------------------------
Re: Around The NBA
By: Phill23 Date: February 1, 2012, 3:34 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
Brown: ‘Just Conversation’ on Arenas
Lakers coach Mike Brown acknowledged the Lakers’ inquiry about
free-agent guard Gilbert Arenas but downplayed the prospects,
noting there was neither a workout or nor any past Arenas video
reviewed by Brown.
“It’s just conversation,” Brown said Tuesday. “We’ve had
conversations about a lot of players. There are a ton of players
that we’ve had conversations with.”
#Post#: 277--------------------------------------------------
Re: Around The NBA
By: Phill23 Date: February 1, 2012, 3:36 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
Maloof Denies Having Issues with Petrie
Kings co-owner Gavin Maloof sat courtside before tipoff against
the Warriors at Oracle Arena on Tuesday night and expressed
support for his head basketball decision maker and head coach.
Maloof said any reports the team is considering replacing
basketball president Geoff Petrie are “totally false.”
“Geoff’s always been a part of the family,” Maloof said. “We’re
in a rough stretch, but so what? Things will turn around.
“I know sometimes the record doesn’t indicate (improvement), but
I like the way he’s developing our young players,” Maloof said.
“I like the way he’s working with them and helping them learn
the science of the game. We’re really, really high on Keith
Smart.
#Post#: 281--------------------------------------------------
Re: Around The NBA
By: AndyMacFAIL Date: February 3, 2012, 1:00 am
---------------------------------------------------------
HTML http://i2.cdn.turner.com/nba/nba/multimedia/photo_gallery/1202/allstarjerseyunis2012/images/rose-jersey.jpg
East Starters: No Rest for the Awsome
If ever there was an All-Star Weekend designed for first-timers,
it is the one coming up at the end of this month in Orlando. The
prospect of having four consecutive days off – or five or, for
some teams, as many as six – ought to shimmer like a desert
oasis and beckon to any NBA veteran or even a
been-there-done-that youngster who has had a previous All-Star
taste and now mostly needs a nap.
Savvy NBA fans – by that, of course, we mean you – understood
this and voted for their rivals’ top guys to further grind them
through a hectic weekend of exertions, obligations and
distractions on the road. Alas, casual fans – they know who they
are – went more traditional, clamoring for their favorite
marquee guys already doing the heaviest lifting.
more at:
HTML http://hangtime.blogs.nba.com/2012/02/02/east-starters-no-rest-for-the-awesome/
HTML http://hangtime.blogs.nba.com/2012/02/02/east-starters-no-rest-for-the-awesome/
#Post#: 282--------------------------------------------------
Re: Around The NBA
By: Phill23 Date: February 3, 2012, 11:07 am
---------------------------------------------------------
Love it!!!
*****************************************************
DIR Previous Page
DIR Next Page