最新消息, 球員工會拒絕上週老闆們修改後的提案, Billy Hunter說“We’ve arrived at the conclusion that the collective bargaining process has completely broken down,” 將要朝解散工會然後告老闆的方向進行.
今年NBA沒得玩了
A bunch of greedy bustards
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NEW YORK -- NBA players rejected the league's latest offer Monday
and began disbanding the union, likely jeopardizing the season.
"We're
prepared to file this antitrust action against the NBA," union
executive director Billy Hunter said of the possibility the union will
take the league to court. "That's the best situation where players can
get their due process."
And that's a tragedy as far as NBA commissioner David Stern is concerned.
"It looks like the 2011-12 season is really in jeopardy," Stern said in an interview aired on ESPN's "SportsCenter."
"It's just a big charade. To do it now, the union is ratcheting up I
guess to see if they can scare the NBA owners or something. That's not
happening."
Hunter said players were not prepared to accept
Stern's ultimatum to accept the current proposal or face a worse one,
saying they thought it was "extremely unfair."
Monday on
"SportsCenter," Stern said offer on the table was no ultimatum, but "a
revised proposal which met many of their concerns."
"When you
negotiate for 2½ years and finally get to where the parties are ...
that's not an ultimatum. That's a proposal that's ready to be voted up
or down," Stern said.
"The chances of the season slipping away from us and the players losing
that they have worked very hard to achieve ... it's really a tragedy,"
Stern added. He said the league had anticipated the union's actions,
which was why it filed a lawsuit against the union and a complaint with
the National Labor Relations Board earlier this year.
"They seem hell-bent on self-destruction and it's very sad," Stern said.
Instead, players went a different route, believing that
filing the disclaimer is much quicker that the decertification process
and gives them a chance to win several billion dollars in triple
damages.
"This is the best decision for the players," union president Derek Fisher
said. "I want to reiterate that point, that a lot of individual players
have a lot of things personally at stake in terms of their careers and
where they stand. And right now they feel it's important -- we all feel
it's important to all our players, not just the ones in this room, but
our entire group -- that we not only try to get a deal done for today
but for the body of NBA players that will come into this league over the
next decade and beyond."
Fisher, flanked at a press conference by dozens of players including Kobe Bryant and Carmelo Anthony, said the decision was unanimous.
Hunter
said the NBPA was in the process of converting to a trade association
and that all players will be represented in a class-action suit against
the NBA by attorneys Jeffrey Kessler and David Boies -- who were on
opposite sides of the NFL labor dispute, Kessler working for the
players, Boise for the league.
"The fact that the two biggest legal adversaries in the NFL players
dispute over the NFL lockout both agree that the NBA lockout is now
illegal and subject to triple damages speaks for itself," Kessler said
in an email to The Associated Press. "I am delighted to work together
with David Boies on behalf of the NBA players."
Stern was not impressed with his legal adversaries.
"The union
decided in its infinite wisdom that the proposal would not be presented
to membership," Stern said. "Obviously, Mr. Kessler got his way and we
are about to go into the nuclear winter of the NBA.
"If I were a player ... I would be wondering what it is that Billy Hunter just did."
Hunter
said the NBPA's "notice of disclaimer" was filed with Stern's office
about an hour before the news conference announcing the move.
Hunter said the bargaining process had "completely broken down." Players
and owners have been talking for some two years but couldn't reach a
deal, with players feeling the league's desires to improve competitive
balance would hurt their free agency options.
And beyond that, the
owners' desire for a 50-50 split of basketball-related income, after
players were guaranteed 57 percent under the old deal, meant players
were shifting at least $280 million per year to the owners.
"This
deal could have been done. It should have been done," Hunter said.
"We've given and given and given, and they got to the place where they
just reached for too much and the players decided to push back."
Over the weekend, Stern said he would not cancel the season this week.
Regardless, damage has already been done, in many ways.
Financially,
both sides have lost hundreds of millions because of the games missed
and the countless more that will be wiped out before play resumes. Team
employees are losing money, and in some cases, jobs. And both the NBA
and NBPA eventually must regain the loyalty of an angered fan base that
wonders how the league reached this low point after such a strong
2010-11 season.
The proposal players rejected Monday called for a 50-50 division of
basketball-related income and proposed a 72-game season beginning Dec.
15. Players are still unhappy with what they believe are too many
restrictions for big-spending teams that would limit their free agent
options, but Stern said the proposal is far better for players than the
one player reps said they would reject last week.
Now likely
awaiting the players, should bargaining resume, is a proposal that will
call for a 53 percent to 47 percent split of BRI in the owners' favor, a
flex cap with a hard ceiling and rollbacks for current salaries.
On
Sunday, the league made a very public push on the positives of the deal
-- hosting a 90-minute twitter chat to answer questions from players
and fans, posting a YouTube video to explain the key points and sending a
memo from Stern to players urging them to "study our proposal
carefully, and to accept it as a fair compromise of the issues between
us."
In the memo, posted on the league's website, Stern highlighted
points of the deal and asked players to focus on the compromises the
league made during negotiations, such as dropping its demands for a hard
salary cap, non-guaranteed contracts and salary rollbacks.
Union
officials repeatedly have said the system issues are perhaps more
important to them than the split of basketball-related income, but
owners say they need fundamental changes in both to allow for a chance
to profit and to ensure more competitive balance throughout the league.
The
previous CBA expired at the end of the day June 30. Despite a series of
meetings in June, there was never much hope of a deal before that
deadline, with owners wanting significant changes after saying they lost
$300 million last season and hundreds of millions more in each year of
the old agreement, which was ratified in 2005.
Owners wanted to
keep more of the league's nearly $4 billion in basketball revenues. And
they sought a system where even the smallest-market clubs could compete,
believing the current system would always favor the teams who could
spend the most.
The NBA's last work stoppage reduced the 1998-99
season to 50 games. Monday marked the 137th day of the lockout; the NFL
lockout lasted 136 days.
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