In previous articles I have smeared Derek Fisher as an over the hill, under efficient player not capable of representing the players union. And until today, I stood by that statement fully. Okay, honestly I still stick by the first half of that statement, but maybe he is better for the players and I originally thought. Plus, when the other option is Billy Hunter, Derek Fisher looks like the next coming of Jimmy Hoffa. Here are the top ten reasons Billy Hunter will be fired as soon as (if not before) the NBA shuts this season down. Reason # 10.... He has put the players in a position reminiscent of an innocent prisoner staring up at a sadomasochist guard. Reasons #9-#1....Despite him pissing away ALL leverage the players may have had, all Mr.Hunter seems to be concerned with is self preservation. How terribly ironic, a man with thousands of greedy millionaires futures at stake is only concerned with his cut. Alright in all honesty I do not know what irony really means, it just sounds fancy.
When I did some quick mental math on some of the labor disagreements, it blew my mind to discover how small of numbers they were actually fighting about (considering the million dollar contracts they own already). If the NBA were to split their revenue with the player at a 52% rate that would be roughly 5,700 dollars a game, per player, PER GAME. If my math is incorrect, check me on it but here is my numbers. A 4.1 billion dollar revenue divided by 30 teams, divided by 15 players per team, divided by 82 games a season would equal upwards of 57 hundred per game. It is sickening, I know. But here is the kicker my friends. The difference between 52 percent and 51 percent is around one hundred dollars per game, or roughly the price it costs per person to go to an NBA game. When it is broken down to a per game basis, it is ridiculous to think that these boys would not be willing to play for maybe two hundred dollars less, per game! Oh, just for the record, this is not contingent on their salary....this is revenue sharing. I wish the Clippers would hold open tryouts tomorrow because not only could I make the scab team with my no experience, but I would gladly take a quarter of the revenue sharing alone.
I HATE what the NBA is doing right now, but I am appalled with the numbers. Maybe more appalling however is my lockout, the NBA fan lockout. No longer will I watch the NBA. I am taking a stand as a human being who works 60+ hours a week for peanuts. Until they publicly apologize to the fans for being arrogant asses that deserve to have to schlep boxes and answer phones, the NCAA has my full attention, and not just in March. And because of my inherent math skills due to not being a part of the NBAPU, losing me as a fan means there are only about 34 left. Good luck Billy Hunter/Derek Fisher/David Stern/Memphis/Charlotte/Sacramento/Utah/where does this back slash end?.
Good points. The other thing I'm quite sure of is that 99.9 percent of the players neither passed a high school math class or ever took a college math class, but when you divide by zero revenue sharing, the number is zero. They probably will wake up when the repo man backs up the Hummer.
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