if I were NBA, this is what I would tell players

[BSpringsteen]

We're going to sell all of the franchises to the NBA Players Association.

We'll take a 15% markup guarantee on operating expenses for the franchise.

You players can decide what to do with the rest, but if the team loses money, you don't get paid.

 

[ssckelley]

With this being a lock out versus a player strike, is the league able to use scab players?

 

[BSpringsteen]

The players decertified the union, the NBA could at this point.

 

[hawkeye12345]

BSpring I think you are on to something but it could be taken a step further.

All of the NBA teams (or those that are interested) can be sold to the players union at fair market value plus 15% (ghetto markup). Now the inmates truly do run the prison and they can do with it as they see fit. If they purchase more than 50% of the existing franchises then they will control the NBAPA and the NBA Owners.

I would give it 5 years before its run into the ground and filing bankruptcy. Then the current owners could come back in and repurchase the assets for a significant discount and start over again with total control.

 

[trj]

Contraction works for me. Eliminate Minnesota, Memphis, Orlando, Charlotte, New Orleans and maybe even Golden State. Instead of 15 teams losing money, now you are down to 8 or 9. Instead of losing upwards of a 150 million, now you are down to a managable 80 or 90 mil.