Chris Paul Trade Rejected By NBA; Did Owners Kill Deal?
Chris Paul wanted a trade to the Knicks. Instead, the Hornets worked out a three-team deal with LA and Houston -- or so they thought.
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Chris Paul wanted a trade to the Knicks. Instead, the Hornets worked out a three-team deal with LA and Houston -- or so they thought.
At noon on Christmas Day, when the curtain finally rises on the better-late-than-never 2011-12 NBA season, Knicks fans will be in for a treat.
Will Williams be "Bound for Brooklyn" with the Nets? It certainly sounds like he's leaning that way.
Williams made it official on Thursday: he'll be opting out of his contract after the 2011-12 season. And Nets fans can thank the new CBA.
New Jersey Nets general manager Billy King vehemently denied rumors Wednesday that he was in trade discussions with the Orlando Magic regarding All-Star center Dwight Howard.
The NBA regular season would run through April 26 and require teams to play at least one set of back-to-back-to-back games if a new labor deal is ratified in time to start on Christmas.
The four-city tour was supposed to stop at the Izod Center in East Rutherford on Dec. 10, but that game and three others have been scrapped now that the league and its players have a tentative labor agreement.
Players, looking beat and beaten, face a tougher healing process in approving an agreement that significantly limits their earnings.
A chronology of the work stoppages from each of the four major sports leagues
Fans and local business owners are calling on the NBA to get its act together.
After filing two separate antitrust lawsuits against the league in different states, NBA players are consolidating their efforts and have turned to the courts in Minnesota as their chosen venue.
NBA players announced Monday they were rejecting the league's latest offer and disclaiming interest in their union — and, no longer governed by labor law, would sue under antitrust law, something they did Tuesday in California and Minnesota.
Both the NBA owners and the players are willing to sacrifice not only a season their sports viability for two items that were barely an issue in the prior CBA. It's borderline insanity.
Well, push came to shove this week in the NBA lockout. After David Stern's, essentially, take it or leave it stance, the players decided to leave it.
Come on, the players have absolutely no intention of seeing this lawsuit to its fruition. It would not only cost them the entire 2011-2012 season, but also potentially the following season as well.
