The NBA has just announced that we will not have basketball in November. This bothers me to no end as I am obsessed with the NBA. In every debate, one should pick a side. I am siding with the owners.
The thing that the players refuse to agree to is anything less than 52% of all basketball related revenue. This is approximately 80 million dollars. I think the owners are being nice offering 50%. This is a common problem in all businesses and corporations. Secretaries think that since they do all the bitch work and paper work that they are actually running the companies. It is very common for lower tier people to believe those at the tops do nothing and the lower people are stuck doing all the work. This is also seen in construction, those actually lifting steel beams and putting them in place putting the building together hate that the architect of the building gets credit for building it. In all examples, the distribution of the money is fairly distributed.
I have a problem with David Stern in his dress code for the players and tyrannical suspensions. The most egregious of this was suspending Rashard Lewis of the Orlando Magic 50 games for testing positive for DHEA. DHEA is a natural hormone made by the body. Everyone in the world has DHEA...and if you don't, you should go get some DHEA supplements because it is one of the most important hormones your body needs to function. I assume that Rashard Lewis tested higher than the normal limit people have, but that's like faulting him for drinking more water than the average person. It's decisions like these where I can understand the players having issue with David Stern but David Stern and the owners have worked very hard making basketball the global game that it's become. They literally go around the world searching for talent and advertising/building teams that thousands of people will pay good money to watch live. I don't know exactly what goes into the daily operations of an NBA owner so I will just say it this way: NBA players are paid millions of dollars to do something that they've been doing for their entire lives and maybe even paid to do early on. It is the NBA owners responsibility to find a way to make enough money to pay these multi-million dollar contracts while still running a successful team. In no way should the salaried employees be compensated at a higher revenue share that the company brings in than the people who find a way to pay all the salaried employees every week.
I really hope the players give in to the 50/50 revenue split soon. They're asking for something they don't deserve and I really want to watch basketball. If they dismiss what the owners do so much, than they should start their own league like they threaten. At least then I can watch basketball again...and they'll find out just how badly they need the owners!
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