I agree with tiger being much more important to the PGA. I'm just using Lebron as an example of how the players boycotting can effect the league. People are saying it would go on as normal, that other players would give in, etc. I think the players would follow Lebron and players like Chris Paul than fight against them because those players are what allows some bench warmer to make $1.2 mil a year. They make the NBA. These guys act like the NBA could play d league games and make the same amount of money.
I agree with you, the league would suffer without LeBron, CP3, etc., however, mid level NBA guys generally can't afford to miss game checks. Most live paycheck to paycheck. That makes a united front difficult. LeBron could miss a season worth of checks and survive, most guys couldn't miss a month. A boycott would hurt the league, no doubt, but I'm not sure the players could boycott for any substantial length of time.
They did it just 3 years ago. And where are people getting this most live paycheck to paycheck nonsense from? I'd like to see that study. Most of those studies determine that by whether you have 6 months worth of paychecks in savings. By those standards I live paycheck to paycheck. But doesn't mean I couldn't afford to live an extended period of time by liquidating assets. I simply do not buy that argument. I could be wrong because I've never researched it. I just would like to see the criteria they are using to determine NBA players making $800k to $20 mil living paycheck to paycheck.
Pure nonsense. During WWII the superstars like Williams, DiMaggio, Feller, Greenberg & Big John Mize from 43 to 45 were off to war.
At peak 340 Major leaguers were in the service along with 3000 minor league players. The rosters were filled with old timers, 4F's, and variety of drunks & rogue castoffs & in one case a castoff from the Army itself.
Still with league quality so diminished with the stars gone the fans came out as never before. It was the game itself the people wanted to see.
2 of the 16 teams reached all time attendance records during this period Detroit Tigers & NY Giants. 7 other teams reached
attendance figures not approached in 10 years or more.
Now that if Lebron & those of his ilk decided to strike, others would gladly take there place and the owners would still prosper.
Basketball is the only game I've never payed a dime to see of the major sports so for me it's 'who cares' but those who love the game
would still be enthralled with it and buy tickets at scalpers prices come playoff time, Lebron or not.
This is stupid. Lebron would play for $100 a game and that is what these fools should be making. If they disagree, find someone else that will. What else would he really do in life? He can take his GHD that he would have if he didn't play basketball and go work at Kroger. Why pay someone 10 million a year when in normal life they would never make more than 50K a year, Not just Lebron but 95% of them. Most would be stealing from the govt. now via Medicaid and welfare.
Uh, the players folded in the lockout, and lost to top it off, idiot
The league wanted an overhaul of its $4-billion-a-year enterprise, and it got it, with a nearly $300 million annual reduction in player salaries and a matrix of new restrictions on contracts and team payrolls. The changes mean a $3 billion gain for the owners over the life of the 10-year deal.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/s...-deal-to-end-lockout.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
As was pointed out, you are the dumbest person posting here. It isn't even close.
