The NBA is currently in a lockout between the owners and the players union. All reports that I have been listening to and reading about have talked about how badly the owners and the NBA are doing in making sure a deal gets done before the regular season is suppose to start in late October. The article discusses the main differences between the players union and the owners. It doesn’t look like this problem will be solved anytime soon and everyone is hoping to at least get a season in this year. Many players are already going overseas to play while the lockout goes on including perennial all-star Deron Williams. The NBA lockout is different than the NFL lockout because the NFL had so much more money at stake if they were to take their lockout into their regular season. On the other hand, the NBA’s revenue sharing is nothing compared to the NFL. Therefore, they have the ability to lockout the players into the season and try and use that as a bargaining chip because many NBA players need their paychecks to cover all of their reckless spending.
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