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NBA Season Further Delayed by Lockout

NBA players like Kevin Durant of the Oklahoma City
Thunder find other ways to stay active during the lockout.

The National Basketball Association (NBA) has been in murky waters for more than a few months as a lockout has disrupted the league due to the players’ and owners’ differences in reaching an agreement over the distribution of revenues.

The owners and players could not compromise when they met for a meeting in a New York City hotel to negotiate salaries on Oct. 20. The battle has raged because the owners want to split the revenue 50/50, while the players want 52.5 percent of the revenue.

The owners have responded by giving them an ultimatum: take the 50 or take nothing.

NBA teams across the league are losing money due to the lockout and, more importantly, the fans of the teams are being punished.

Fans will have to deal with the consequence that if an agreement is not reached soon the players could find homes in different teams overseas and games will continue to be cancelled.

NBA fans believe it’s important that the players and owners reach an agreement, that both sides are willing to meet in the middle and the aftermath of the lockout doesn’t disappoint everyone involved.

The team players and union supporters are willing to meet and solve this ongoing problem but the owners have given the players an ultimatum to accept the 50/50 deal, a sign they are not backing down and it seems to be furthering them from reaching an agreement to end the lockdown.

The longer the lockout lasts, the fans and everyone involved will be wondering what is next. Mike Guzman, a CSU East Bay student, sides with the players.

“The players are the infrastructure for the game. It’s not fair that the higher up wants 50 percent of the revenue when the players bring in the money. It’s a risk that players are taking not wanting to come to a consensus because they’re at a greater loss at the end,” he said.

Fernadonan Torrecilla, a Communication major at CSUEB, said “a money-making scheme, just like the NFL had their lockout and waited to the last minute as a way to get the fans excited.”

According to the latest reports from The New York Times, the owners of the NBA are willing to meet closer to the 52.5 percent and call it a deal.

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