Armor Pre-Season Underway

by Net Income on Nov 10, 2011 6:19 PM EST in Springfield Armor

The 17 players that make up the current Armor roster are already in Springfield, with the official start of training camp Saturday. Players arrived Wednesday and Thursday with physicals stretched out over two days, starting Thursday. No reports of any problems. The team's first meeting will be Friday with Bob MacKinnon and assistant Chris Carrawell.

Then on Tuesday, the team will gather at the Naismith National Basketball Hall of Fame for its annual media day, which will include a training session open to the media.

Final rosters are set November 23, two days before the Armor's home opener against the Maine Red Claws. D-League rosters are limited to 10 players.

The Armor roster includes two former NBA players: Chris Taft who played 17 games for the Warriors before being injured in 2005 and JamesOn Curry, who played one game after being called up by the Clippers in 2010.

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omg!!!!

I been looking forward for this all year!!!!!

Dwight or bust....
Superbowl or bust...

by D-Will2Nets on Nov 10, 2011 6:24 PM EST reply actions

good write-up by Bondy on Gaines childhood.

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/nets/2011/11/the-sundiata-gaines-story-from-near-tragedy-to-inspiration

by YOUNG NET on Nov 10, 2011 9:30 PM EST reply actions

Is tonight going to be the night, or will it be on 11/11/11 at 11 AM?

Ken Berger
Source confirms @WojYahooNBA report that Stern will confer with owners and deliver revised proposal to union tonight.
11 minutes ago via TweetDeck

KBergCBS Ken Berger
The revised proposal indeed is based on current negotiated deal points, not the reset proposal threatened if talks broke down.
11 minutes ago

by jerry25 on Nov 10, 2011 10:35 PM EST reply actions

Dont get your hopes up dude. not worth it. learn from your earlier mistakes of fulling for the so called progress.

not going to expect games till February.

by YOUNG NET on Nov 10, 2011 10:41 PM EST up reply actions

I've said for months there would be about a 50 game season and that games wouldn't start until Christmas at earliest.

It was Chris Sheridan who had been saying from the beginning that there would be a 82 game season.

by jerry25 on Nov 10, 2011 10:52 PM EST up reply actions

On NBA TV, they were saying that players need freedom to be traded to all 30 teams, not just 25 teams and that it would lower their contracts with less competition.

BULL. This only effects a few players like Howard, who would get Max Salary anywhere.

by jerry25 on Nov 10, 2011 10:37 PM EST reply actions

Neither Charles, nor anyone else mentioned the need for more parity, and that the new CBA would help.

Previously, Sir Charles had said there needs to be more parity in NBA and that Stern was going to get his wish.

They all said that since the players came down from 57 to 50 percent, it was up to the owners to give in on remaining issues.

by jerry25 on Nov 10, 2011 10:40 PM EST up reply actions

New proposal has 3 yr. 3 million mini-MLE in alternate years for Tax teams - per Berger 15 minutes ago

One of the people said league negotiators signaled a willingness to raise the so-called “mini mid-level” to three years starting at $3 million for teams above the luxury-tax level, to be available every other year. The previous offer was a two-year deal starting at $2.5 million, available every other year to tax teams. There was no indication union negotiators were ready to agree to this slight improvement in the owners’ proposal, as it would reduce the mid-level exception for tax teams from last year’s five-year, $37 million total to three years and $9 million for teams above the tax line.

There is still disagreement over whether a team that goes over the tax by adding MLE salary (5 million for 4 years), should be considered a TAX team or not.

by jerry25 on Nov 10, 2011 10:55 PM EST reply actions

http://ken-berger.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/11838893/33225313

by jerry25 on Nov 10, 2011 10:55 PM EST up reply actions

surprise surprise

KBergCBS Ken Berger
Fisher: We still would like to continue to negotiate and try to get a deal done but right now, it’s not that time.
58 seconds ago

I think it's fine.

by NetsMets4Life on Nov 10, 2011 10:58 PM EST reply actions

This actually sounds pretty good

AlexKennedyNBA Alex Kennedy
Derek Fisher says the NBA’s latest proposal didn’t adjust the system changes enough. “It’s not enough to entice us to finish this tonight.”

So maybe tomorrow…?

I think it's fine.

by NetsMets4Life on Nov 10, 2011 10:59 PM EST up reply actions

Okay...maybe next week

KBergCBS Ken Berger
Hunter says there are another 30 or 40 secondary issues that also need to be resolved.

I think it's fine.

by NetsMets4Life on Nov 10, 2011 11:03 PM EST up reply actions

Marc J. Spears
Stern: “My hopes is the events of next week leads us to a 72 game season on Dec. 15.”
1 minute ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®

Marc J. Spears
Silver: Playoffs and Finals would be moved back a week under revised schedule. There will be short free agency, training camp & preseason.
1 minute ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®

Marc Stein

NBA comissioner David Stern: “If this offer is not accepted (next week), then we will revert to our 47 percent proposal.”
4 minutes ago via UberSocial for BlackBerry

by jerry25 on Nov 10, 2011 11:30 PM EST reply actions