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Derrick Rose Says It’s Stern’s Fault, Yada Yada… Wait, Who’s in Charge of the Union?

This is the para­graph I’m sup­posed to block­quote you and pull the news story off of. Guess what? A mem­ber of the player’s union thinks David Stern and the own­ers are mean and it’s their fault for the lock­out! TOTALLY NEW INFORMATION. “It’s sad. It’s very sad. But every­body knows it’s not our fault. It’s def­i­nitely not our fault. If it was up to us, we’ll be out there play­ing,” the reign­ing league MVP said Sat­ur­day at the State Street Foot Locker in the Loop. I think that it’s wrong. I know that they can eas­ily take care of it and not take advan­tage... 

Garnett, Kobe, Pierce Shut Down 50/50 Talks Before Deadline on Their Own

In a way, I’m kind of glad for stuff like this. I mean, the lock­out had become down­right depress­ing. Both sides were “miles apart” but “ready to make a deal.” We’ve lost games, good games, which may or may not be resched­uled. Both sides seem more inter­ested in rhetoric than progress, and it’s become about ego as much as it is about money, both of which are pretty dis­gust­ing in the times we live in. But this? This is pretty funny. Not “JaVale McGee said the play­ers were fold­ing to a half-dozen reporters with tape recorders in their hands right in front of his face... 

Fisher, Hunter Respond to Stern With Tough Words of Their Own

After David Stern’s Mag­i­cal Media Tour on Thurs­day and Fri­day, the play­ers needed to respond before a medi­a­tor puts the lock on both sides next week. And after mak­ing an “armed and dan­ger­ous” ref­er­ence, union exec­u­tive direc­tor Billy Hunter con­tin­ued along with union pres­i­dent Derek Fisher in push­ing back hard against the com­mish. Var­i­ous quotes from the and other sources: Fisher expressed opti­mism that there would be a sea­son, which is con­trasted by the dour approach of both Stern and Hunter. Except Fisher’s asser­tion is based more... 

NBATV Ratings Plummet During Lockout… Don’t You Like “Teen Wolf?”

NBA TV has been as hard to watch as a Shawn Mar­ion jump shot dur­ing the lockout. Banned from show­ing any cur­rent NBA play­ers, they have been rel­e­gated to show­ing noth­ing but clas­sic games. No sum­mer league games, no shows pre­view­ing the upcom­ing sea­son, no shows talk­ing fan­tasy hoops, no drop ins on train­ing camp. Which led to these tweets from TV Sports Ratings: NBA TV had an aver­age audi­ence of 11,000 view­ers last week (fewest ever). Among mea­sured ad-supported cable nets, only Fuel (7k) had less. Since start of lock­out, NBA TV has aired Fish/Saved... 

If We Get a Season, Not All the Canceled Games Are Gone Forever

There’s a whole lot of con­fu­sion over the first two weeks of the sea­son that have been can­celed. The league doesn’t know how many games will be can­celed, so it can’t make any announce­ments on the sta­tus of the games that have already been can­celed. The assump­tion is that the games that were lost are gone for­ever. But that’s prob­a­bly not the case. From the New York Post: The Post has reported that over the last two months NBA sched­ule­maker Matt Win­nick has designed a hand­ful of con­tin­gency sched­ules includ­ing 74-game, 70-game, 60-game and 50-game... 

Carmelo Anthony Says He Made the Right Decision With Trade

It was an ugly mess watch­ing Carmelo Anthony force his way out of Den­ver last season. But for Anthony, it was the right move. He looks at the ongo­ing lock­out, the lost games, the limbo he would be in as a free agent and thinks how he han­dled every­thing worked out for the best. That’s what he told Newsday. “I think I did the right thing,” Anthony told reporters Wednes­day while pro­mot­ing the release of his new Jor­dan Brand sneaker, Melo8, in Manhattan… “For the aver­age per­son out there who really thought I was just try­ing to get up and just leave for no rea­son,... 

Pete Carroll Tries to Recruit LeBron to Seahawks. Jokingly.

The Seat­tle Sea­hawks pass­ing game could use some help. They are 25th in the NFL at 205 pass­ing yards per game and, while they com­plete a pretty aver­age num­ber of passes a con­test, they aver­age just 6.6 yards per pass­ing attempt (26th in the league). They need a big-time receiver. Like maybe LeBron James. On Tues­day, LeBron tweeted ask­ing what was the dead­line for an NFL team to sign a free agent. That led to a lit­tle back-and-forth with Sea­hawks coach Pete Car­roll, who was always good at recruit­ing. (Right USC?) Wednes­day, Car­roll tweeted out the photo you... 

Stoudemire Calls Turiaf, Diaw “Smelliest Players in the League”

Colum­nist and ESPN host Dan Le Batard recently had Knicks for­ward Amar’e Stoudemire on his show, and at around the 3:00 mark of the inter­view, he asked Stoudemire who the smelli­est play­ers in the league are. Here’s Stoudemire’s response, cour­tesy of I am a GM and The Bas­ket­ball Jones: Dan Le Batard: Kevin Love told us that Ronny Turiaf smells worse than any­one in the NBA. Can you confirm? Amar’e Stoudemire: Con­firmed. Con­fir­ma­tion, granted. Dan Le Batard: Your team­mate is the worst smelling player in the NBA. Who is second? Amar’e Stoudemire: I dunno, man.... 

President Obama “a Little Heartbroken” Over NBA Lockout

Pres­i­dent Barack Obama has prob­lems, ones that dwarf yours and mine. In the best of times the pres­i­dent has life-or-death issues to deal with daily, and these are not the best of times. Like you and me, he needs an occa­sional escape rom those prob­lems. Like you and me, the NBA and bas­ket­ball can pro­vide that. Except not now, not with the NBA locked out and the first two weeks of the sea­son already thrown in the trash­can. That is not sit­ting well with the pres­i­dent, accord­ing to The Hill (via Trey Kirby’s twit­ter account). Pres­i­dent Obama said Tues­day... 

Players Union to Host Meeting in Los Angeles Friday

The NBA play­ers union can­not win the pub­lic rela­tions war — the fans will side with the own­ers, espe­cially after the blunder-filled “let us play” twit­ter cam­paign Mon­day — and their only hope of sal­vaging what they have of the last labor deal is to stay unified. So far that has gone well — with the NBA’s stars lead­ing the way the union is not break­ing ranks. Kobe Bryant and Kevin Gar­nett have made pleas with the play­ers to stay uni­fied, and the NBA rank-and-file loved Dwyane Wade snap­ping back at David Stern in a meet­ing a cou­ple weeks back. To keep... 

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