| 07 November 2011
Gotta love these NBA CBA negotiations (tongue firmply placed in cheek). Really enjoying how acrimonious it's all getting. And at the forefront? Michael Jordan, hardline owner. A guy who seems to believe that the players should just shut up and play... funnily enough, a bit over a decade ago this was the same guy at the heart of another CBA discussion - but this time on the other side of the fence.
Back in October of 1998, Jordan yelled at Abe Pollin (the then owner of the newly-minted Wiz),
"If you can't make a profit, you should sell your team!"
Now that the Tres Outlaw boot is on the other foot, Jordan's done a 180, and has become a resident pitbull for the hardest of the hardline owners, along with Paul Allen - that particular group is deadset against any deal that gives the players a modicum of balanced returns on the BRI. They're interested in giving the players 37%.
Sheesh... really Michael? Not only am I aghast at the temerity of a guy yelling abuse over wanting 63% only a decade ago, but just amazed that they don't seem to care an iota over whether we even get a "next" season.
Is this the sporting equivalent of "Let them eat cake"?
