Canceling NBA’s First Two Weeks Would Cost Players $200 Million at BetLM

Canceling NBA’s First Two Weeks Would Cost Players $200 Million

The money is about to start pil­ing up.

Up until now, the costs of the lock­out have been largely the­o­ret­i­cal to the NBA own­ers and play­ers (not so much the staff of the teams, but that’s another story). But the loss of the NBA pre­sea­son will cost the own­ers about $ 200 mil­lion, league offi­cials said Tuesday.

If NBA reg­u­lar sea­son games get can­celed — as David Stern said would hap­pen next Mon­day — then the play­ers would start los­ing money in the form of lost pay.

How much? Ken Berger of CBSSports.com did some calculations.

To fig­ure out how much far­ther each side will go, you have to quan­tify how much they would lose by can­cel­ing the first two weeks of the reg­u­lar sea­son. For the play­ers, it’s $ 200 mil­lion — $ 140.6 mil­lion for the 301 play­ers under con­tract, plus an esti­mated $ 53.7 mil­lion for the 129 free agents, $ 4.4 mil­lion for the 30 first-round picks and $ 1.2 mil­lion for the 30 second-round picks, based on cal­cu­la­tions pro­vided by a front office executive.

So the own­ers will lose $ 200 mil­lion, the play­ers can lose $ 200 mil­lion, and sud­denly this sounds like a crazy Cold War “mutu­ally assured destruc­tion” scenario.

Level heads can solve this sit­u­a­tion. Berger lays out a rea­son­able plan. But he also has this fan­tas­tic quote.

“You have a rea­son­able idea,” a per­son con­nected to the nego­ti­a­tions said. “But you’re not deal­ing with rea­son­able people.”

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