Apr 26 12:24p by Tom Ziller
Monday's ruling in favor of NFL players who had decertified their union in response to a league-ordered lockout and who can now file antitrust complaints against the NFL was a boon to NBA players, who are likewise locked in a labor battle with their league. Ken Berger of CBSSports.com reports that the NBA union has already received permission from its members to decertify if the NBA orders a lockout on July 1 or thereafter.
The NBA has the benefit of watching the NFL's saga play out before engaging in its own war. In fact, the decertification ruling released Monday sets a federal precedent that NBA players will lean on if their own negotiations break the way the NFL's have. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals could reverse the ruling and essentially rule that despite decertification players still function as a union with regards to NFL rules. But the onus is on the NFL owners to prove that should be the case.
The NBA battle is expected to be more bitter because, unlike the NFL, some NBA teams are actually losing money under the current system. The NFL, however, has much wider revenue sharing and profit parity than the NBA does.
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NBA Players' Union Prepared To Decertify If League Orders Lockout
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Comments
WTF is decertification?
I know there are some egg-heads out there. Can someone tell me what does decertification means?
by Jeffrey Thompson on Apr 26, 2011 5:40 PM EDT reply actions
it means the union would disband
and each team would basically be its own franchise with its own set of rules.
"Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for Steve Jobs to win the lotto." - Chris Rock
by Taylor Made on Apr 27, 2011 12:58 PM EDT up reply actions
I don’t get it. Why would they do that?
by Jeffrey Thompson on Apr 30, 2011 9:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Billy Hunter, are you listening?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704132204576285090526726626.html
"Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for Steve Jobs to win the lotto." - Chris Rock
by Taylor Made on Apr 27, 2011 12:56 PM EDT reply actions
Hard cap plz.
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by Jacob Grinyer on Apr 27, 2011 3:33 PM EDT reply actions
TV revenue sharing better idea
What the league should do instead is set up a system where all the teams benfits in tv revenue. Right now all the bigger markets get all the money while the smaller teams get little or nothng at all. I mean the Sacramento Kings only got 10$ million dollars a season in TV revenues this season wheras the Lakers have a deal that would net them 5$ billion dollars for the next fuve years.
10$ million dollars a year? That’s like the yearly salary of a second-tier player. Learning that, now I can understand why the Maloofs were considering moving the Kings to Anahiem, becuase they figured that they could get a bigger share in TV revenue. The players and owners have only been focusing on salaries where that is not the things killing them the most. The league needs to institute a new television revenue sharing plan similar to the NFL.
by Jeffrey Thompson on May 2, 2011 2:32 PM EDT up reply actions
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