#NBAFanVoice Day: Waiting On The Next Move For The Pacers

Both sides make me sick, I think they are greedy and out of touch. Do they realize that the economy is terrible right now? Do they realize that people working hard and living paycheck to paycheck to make it don’t care about the plight of millionaires vs billionaires, in fact we find the greed disgusting?

The players disgust me because they appear to be blind. Do they not play in empty arenas every night? How can you go on a road trip where you are playing at Indiana, at Charlotte, at Philadelphia in front of half filled arenas and not think something is wrong. They play with complete wastes like Jamaal Tinsley, James Posey, Eddy Curry and think that contracts are fine. Yeah the owners offered you the money and there’s nothing wrong in taking it, but why is the owner locked in to that contract when you lose any work ethic you ever had, put on extra weight, go get drunk way too often at strip clubs, which only leads to trouble, or just simply lose the talent you once had while becoming a locker room distraction? They think that big market teams spending twice as much as small market teams makes the league competitive, which is just wrong. I don’t care about the Heat, but there has to be a way to level the playing field for small market teams. The system is broken and needs changed, stop pretending like everything is fine and the old system is viable for the next 10 years. And please stop the twitter PR campaign. Your side is just as wrong as the owners we don’t need to here you talk in circles to try to pretend you are standing up for some great noble cause. I’m talking to you Dahntay Jones and Amare Stoudemire and all the other idiots talking way to much on social media. It’s laughable to hear these guys, who most didn’t go to college or spent one year there, lecturing about economics or the viability of player run leagues. Get a clue, the more games that are missed the worse the deal gets for you, you have no leverage.

Owners you are disgusting because the longer this goes on the more it appears you are just greedy. Yes, the system is broken and needs changed and yes teams lose money, but if you have cancelled games because you want to get spending under control and create a system with more competitive balance and not because you want a bigger split of the revenue you have done a terrible job of explaining that. You might have the worst PR in the history of media if you are actually going for big systematic changes. No, you just want more money. I could possibly get behind you if you were trying to fix what’s broken in the NBA, I’d still be angry that you cancelled games, but at least I could see the logic behind it. I don’t see a reason to cancel games because you want a bigger piece of the pie though, and because you thought it was a good idea to not meet until the absolute last minute and then give a fake offer 2 weeks ago that had no chance to pass and effectively ended negotiations until it was too late. No, I don’t think you’ve been bargaining in good faith. I think you wanted to cancel games all along. Why should we care about you trying to create a system where you are guaranteed profits in this economy? When people are losing jobs everyday and in a city where the tax payers pay $10 mil a year for the stadium, we should care that you are so incompetent at running NBA franchises that you need a system that saves you from yourselves? You sure love to point out the economic impact of a sports franchise when you have your hands out begging for money, but you sure don’t seem to care about the impact your greed has on those same business when you cancel games. This lockout could be over in two seconds if you’d take the 48% split and approve revenue sharing, but no you have to teach everyone a lesson and your probably right that the players will fold once they start losing paychecks. At what cost though? What do the fans get out of your new found financial security? Once you solve all your revenue problems will you be lowering ticket prices? I didn’t think so. Once again the fans are screwed and don’t be so sure they will all come flocking back. You’ve already killed all the momentum you had from last season from the casual fans and each day this lockout goes on the hardcore fans grow more angry. How long before people start tuning out for good?