Deadlines and Commitments - XXVII
by Net Income on Jun 26, 2011 8:24 AM EDT
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PrintIt is now crunchtime. With five days till the end of the collective bargaining agreement, the NBA owners and players, it's clear the league's growing popularity is at risk. On Tuesday, barring an unforeseen breakthrough, the owners will vote to lock out players, starting Friday. Staff is being laid off around the league, but not in East Rutherford.
Also this week: expect some D-League news, with the D-League National Tryout this weekend, and maybe some undrafted rookies getting tryouts. On Monday, the Nets will unveil its three draftees and if that isn't enough to attract the media, Kris Humphries will be around to work with Avery Johnson on the Nets basketball development camp. In fact, Humphries, Anthony Morrow and Travis Outlaw are all part of local basketball camps this week...and Deron Williams just completed his. Expect them all, especially Hump, who is the Nets player rep, to get a lot of questions about the impending lockout. Of course, Hump will get other questions.
June 24-26 - D-League National Tryout, HOOPS, Louisville. Participants will be competing for the chance to sign an NBA D-League standard player contract and to be placed in the 2011 NBA D-League Draft, held in November. The Nets have set this week as a deadline for hiring at least the head coach for the Springfield Armor.
June 27 - PNY Center, 10:30 a.m. Nets introduce MarShon Brooks, Bojan Bogdanovic and Jordan Williams to the media.
June 27-30 - Nets basketball development camp, PNY Center. Avery Johnson, Kris Humphries and "special guests" will be on hand for the camp. No doubt some gossip writers will want press credentials too. Steel yourself, Suss.
June 27 - July 1 - Anthony Morrow Sharp Shooters Basketball Camp, Charlotte, NC.
June 28 - NBA Board of Governors meeting, New York. Owners are expected to vote on locking out the players.
June 28-30 - Travis Outlaw Elite Basketball Camp, Starkville, MS.
June 30 - End of old collective bargaining agreement, possible start of lockout? Humphries, Sasha Vujacic, Dan Gadzuric, Brandan Wright and Ben Uzoh become free agents.
July 1 - First day teams can start talking with free agents. Expect deals to be announced but not signed the next day...as long as there's no lockout.
July 5 - Nets must decide whether to keep Stephen Graham for 2011-2012 season. If he is cut by July 5 the Nets owe him nothing. If they keep him, he gets a guaranteed $100,000.
July 18 - Assuming no lockout and no significant changes to the CBA (BIG assumptions), this is the first day Deron Williams can sign a contract extension with the Nets. Neither of those two assumptions are likely to turn into reality. So the D-Will signing saga is likely to move into the new season whenever and if ever it starts.
July 28 - Expected date for Barclays Center's distinctive weathered steel skin, to start going up.
August 31 - September 18 - FiBA Eurobasket, Vilnius, Lithuania. Bojan Bogdanovic is a member of Team Croatia.
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What are they waiting for?
July 5 – Nets must decide whether to keep Stephen Graham for 2011-2012 season. If he is cut by July 5 the Nets owe him nothing. If they keep him, he gets a guaranteed $100,000.
only thing that makes sense is if...
they want to keep him on until last minute in case a trade is worked out before then they could throw his contract into the deal as an expiring
by Henry Sanchez on Jun 26, 2011 12:53 PM EDT up reply actions
If it were up to me,
NOTHING. Out the door he would have been
Lopez: "I'll stop being lazy and go after every rebound"
maybe they forgot they gave him a partial guarantee
maybe jerry should remind the front office they have to waive him; he wont become an automatic free agent
The realist keepin it real amongst the surrealists
R.I.P. Big Homey Nate Dogg: "Cuz Iiiiiiiiii have ne-evv-ver met a giiiiiiiiiirrrrrrllllllllllllllllllll tha-at I loved in the whole wide wooorrrlllllddddddd"
by starbury_to_s-jaxci2000 on Jun 26, 2011 5:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Hehe
Of course, Hump will get other questions
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Brook Lopez is the MAN!
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I don't really hate Outlaw, its just fun to make fun of him
June 28-30 – Travis Outlaw Elite Basketball Camp, Starkville, MS.
lol’d
by Scooby803 on Jun 26, 2011 8:50 AM EDT reply actions 4 recs
There's been a typo
June 28-30 – Travis Outlaw Elite Crab Basketball Camp, Starkville, MS.
Brook Lopez is the MAN!
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I don't really hate Outlaw, its just fun to make fun of him
by netsareboss on Jun 26, 2011 9:07 AM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
i feel bad for people that waste their money getting taught by Outlaw
by RandyOreens on Jun 26, 2011 11:43 AM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
Travis Inlaw.....
Should be a participant , not an instructor……
by NetFan48 on Jun 26, 2011 1:48 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
Won't the Nets still keep Humps rights, although he would be a FA.
And just how would the Nets be able to cut Graham on July 5, if there is a lockout?
Shouldn’t the Nets cut Graham before July 1, just to be safe.
Then Graham would truely NOT be a Net.
Off the topic, but all I want to say is that D-Will is my basketball model now.
Because I always cross over before I attempt to make jumpers, and I find that it works well.
Thanks to D-Will, now I can make the jumpers without the defense in front of me by using cross over.
Jarkid I would pay money to watch you play ball.
by power_njerz on Jun 26, 2011 12:02 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
So if the unthinkable happens and the whole season is cancelled...
Do players’ contracts for this year expire? Is everything pushed forward one year? Do we not know until the new CBA is figured out?
I thought Brook Lopez was supposed to be at that basketball camp with Avery.
But I can’t remember if that announcement was made Before or After his surgery.
Brook should be fine now. DWill had more serious surgery right after the season and is already playing golf and shooting hoops using is repaired wrist.
Then again, Brook is “soft” but not “DWill”.
Brook is not soft
He never misses a game from injury and plays hurt. He goes up against the biggest and meanest players in the world. Him and the hump are banging all night long. How do you come up with soft. He could be an outside type of player but most of his pts come from the paint. Soft? your nuts…
Its one thing for Brook Lopez to be fine...
Its another thing for him to be busting his butt trying to get stronger and better conditioned.
The off season is the only time to do it, and that is what Avery wanted before the surgery was delayed despite many tweets at the end of the season to GET IT DONE ASAP!
With the lockout coming, conditions will become less favorable to get it done, unless Brook uses all his own funding.
Brooks improvement is a minimum requirement before the Nets have any hope of trading for Dwight Howard.
Doubt the full season will be cancelled but if it is
Will there still be a draft next June – resulting in 60 rookies in the 2012-13 season. Will draft picks as part of trades be less valuable when teams have a supply that’s double the norm?
if i wasnt in college
i would go down there sing up for the outlaw camp and challenge him to a one-on-one or two-on-two and put that all over youtube after i make him look like we think he is
The realist keepin it real amongst the surrealists
R.I.P. Big Homey Nate Dogg: "Cuz Iiiiiiiiii have ne-evv-ver met a giiiiiiiiiirrrrrrllllllllllllllllllll tha-at I loved in the whole wide wooorrrlllllddddddd"
by starbury_to_s-jaxci2000 on Jun 26, 2011 6:42 PM EDT reply actions
Don't Fool Yourself
Fans look at a pro athlete struggling with his game and imagine, I gcould take him.
In reality nothing is further from the truth. Pro athletes reside at a completely different skill level than ordinary people.
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