Deadlines and Commitments - XXXIII
by Net Income on Aug 6, 2011 7:15 AM EDT
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PrintTwo of the three Nets draft choices are expected on the court this week as is one of the eight players the team has under contract. It's possible one of the team's free agents will be as well (although he's not on most fans' bring-back lists.)
Bojan Bogdanovic plays starting Saturday in the Addeco Ex-Yu Cup, a "friendly" warm-up to FIBA Eurobasket. It features the national teams of the six former Yugoslavian republics. Croatia's first game is against Montenegro at 3 p.m. EDT. No TV. MarShon Brooks is expected to play Tuesday in the Nike Pro-City Tournament championships, as is Sundiata Gaines. Again No TV.
And if he can get insurance, Dan Gadzuric is expected to play for the Netherlands in EuroJam 2011, which opens in an Amsterdam suburb Saturday afternoon. Also added to the calendar: the two-part, four-hour mini-series on Kris Humphries' wedding to Kim Kardashian. No insurance needed for this one, just a pre-nup.
August 6 - August 9 - Addeco Ex-Yu Cup 2011, Ljubljana, Slovenia. All six former Yugoslav republics --Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia and Montenegro-- will compete in an exhibition tournament, the first of two warm-up tourneys for Bogdanovic's Team Croatia, who'll play in Eurobasket, FIBA Europe qualifying tournament.
August 6 - Illinois Hoop Legends for Charities, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL. Expect a lot more media to attend this year and they won't be there to discuss Brian Cardinal's role with the Mavericks.
August 9 - August 11 - Nike Pro-City League Championships, Baruch College, 55 Lexington Ave., New York. Brooks has said he will participate. Gaines is also expected to play.
August 12 - August 14 - EuroJam 2011, Almere, Amsterdam. The national teams of the Netherlands, Israel and Georgia as well as Villanova will play a "friendly" tournament. Dan Gadzuric plays for the Netherlands if he can get insurance.
August 16 - August 20 - London Invitational Tournament, London. Six teams, including Croatia, will participate in a six-team exhibition tourney prior to their play in FIBA's international qualifying tournaments. Serbia, China, Australia, France and Great Britain also participating.
August 20 - Kris Humphries marries Kim Kardashian in Montecito, CA, near Santa Barbara. The wedding will be taped for a special edition of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians". See below.
August 27 - Deron Williams and Kyle Korver Dodgeball Tournament, Lehi, UT.
August 31 - September 18 - FIBA Eurobasket, Lithuania. Bogdanovic's big summer stage. He has done well in previous international tournaments as a member of Team Croatia. First games will be held in Altyus, Lithuania, withe championship round in the capital of Vilnius.
September 1 - D-Will has to be in Istanbul for Besiktas training camp.
September 8 - Expected start date for installation of Barclays Center roofing atop the arena's latticework framing, itself underway.
September 27 - Besiktas opens season with important EuroCup game vs Dexia Mons-Hainaut of Belgium at the BJK Akatlar Turka Cola arena (capacity 3,200). Deron Williams' home debut.
October 1 - NBA training camps will have to be delayed or canceled.
October 4 - Besiktas plays Dexia Mons-Hainaut at the Mons Arena (capacity 3,700) in Belgium.
October 9 - October 10 - "Kim's Fairytale Wedding: A Kardashian Event" on E! Two hours, Two nights.
October 15 - Drop-dead date for losing regular season games. In 1998 lockout, the league canceled the first two weeks of the regular season on October 13.
October 20 - Euroleague opens this weekend. Will any other Nets players be on European (or Chinese) rosters? Jordan Farmar plays for Maccabi Tel Aviv. Bogdanovic plays for Fenerbahce Ulker of Istanbul; ex-Net Sasha Vujacic plays for Efes of Istanbul. Bogdanovic's teammates include Sean May, who the Nets signed and released last summer.
October 31 - If lockout is over and teams are preparing for a November 1 opening night, this is the day the Nets have to decide on Stephen Graham's contract.
November 1 - Likely date for D-League Draft (which is done by conference call).
November 2 - If no lockout, Nets open season, their last in New Jersey, with a road game in Washington.
November 5 - If no lockout, Nets' home opener, vs. Pistons at Prudential Center.
November 7 - D-League preseason normally begins this week, with first regular season games ten days later. D-League schedule has yet to be released.
November 15 - First missed paycheck for most NBA players. Most players are paid bi-weekly and their contracts run basically on the same schedule as the season. Some players get paid in a lump sum, others on an annual basis, meaning their last paycheck with July 1.
December 4 - Russian parliamentary elections. If Prokhorov's Pravoe Delo party wins 7% of the vote, the party will enter the Duma (Russia's parliament) for the first time and Prokhorov has said he will move his offices to the Duma building.
January 6 - If no agreement by this date, expect the entire 2011-12 season will be canceled.
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Pre-nup?
For Kris or Kim, I think they may earn about the same $.
by Zartan on Aug 6, 2011 8:08 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
Kim can bring home the bacon...
Fry it up in a pan, and never let Kris forget he’s a man…
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven"
aunt-B aunt-B aunt-B
In this day and age, I’d that happened, Kris will be come a women.
by Zartan on Aug 6, 2011 10:54 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Tick tock
With even greater economic distress on the horizon, the owners and players would be well advised to stop fighting over OUR money NOW. These fools just don’t get it. Looks like both sides are greedy and dumb enough to learn the hard way. Pathetic.
by nynjlawyer on Aug 6, 2011 8:17 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
Owners won't even talk before players agree to at least a 50-50 split instead of current 57-43 split.
Players might be willing to agree to 54.5 – 45.5 split.
And first they have to go through this litigation stage, as with the NFL.
57-43 is kinda unfair
"Some things you just can't question. Like you can't question why two plus two is four. So don't question it, don't try to look it up. I don't know who made it, all I know is it was put in my head that two plus two is four. So certain things happen. Why does it rain? Why am I so sexy? I don't know." - Shaquille O'Neal
by CinnamonToastCrunch on Aug 6, 2011 12:22 PM EDT reply actions
I really doubt that there's an agreement by Jan 6.
"Dont blame me, I was given this world, I didn’t make it."
-Tupac Shakur
There are no irreplaceable people
How come players don’t get it? If I were owners I’d say: listen you “Outlaws”, look around and wake up, while people struggling making 40K a year, 25% of you are getting paid millions just for wearing uniform on the bench. If you don’t want 50/50 split, go to hell and we’re hiring new players, building new system where players will be happy with making $500,000 a year. Even now when I’m typing somewhere in the US new Kobe or Lebron being born, who without NBA would be nobody, choosing between 50K desk job or starting their own small businesses.
Go Owners!
or
the players could say,
“Listen you greedmeisters, the richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost 24 percent of income, up from almost 9 percent in 1976. It’s the greatest disparity since records have been kept. Thirteen of you are billionaires, three more than at season’s end! As everyone knows, sports franchise owners make their money when they sell. With few exceptions, that’s the case in the NBA.
“For the most part, we worked our way out of grinding poverty and horrible living conditions, a national disgrace. We are not giving up what we earned just because you want to be even richer than you are now.
“Besides, we didn’t hold you up. You and your managers gave us this money as part of the free enterprise system. If you can’t manage your operations, don’t blame us.”
and
the owners could say,
Fine, bah bye! Have fun traveling. We’re building new NBA.
Unions is what ruing America. When they force owners to pay more for worker’s services then they deserve. Are you happy paying MTA employee without college degree $30 an hour as well as their insurance and other benefits? This is why America is doomed with it’s ballooning debt.
Okay.
Let’s just let our superstars walk and find players to make a “new” NBA.
"Dont blame me, I was given this world, I didn’t make it."
-Tupac Shakur
by NetsMets4Life on Aug 6, 2011 2:40 PM EDT up reply actions
as far as "managers gave us this money"
If Lebron was making 2M a year Outlaw would never see his asinine contract.
good luck enforcing that
among a group of incredibly rich, incredibly competitive owners. The big guys ALWAYS figure a way around the CBA…always.
this isn’t about players and owners, its about big market vs. small market. it’s naive to think otherwise. The Nets make less than $10 million a year in local TV rights. Lakers will make $200 million. Some owners also own arenas and reap profits from the 150 other events on the bill. Others are tenants.
and the idea that unions is ruining America
is hysterical. The number of union members as a percentage of the workforce is shrinking in direct proportion to the disparity in income.
Unions built the middle class in this country. ANd without them, the middle class has suffered.
Some say the unions killed the us auto industry. Higher wages and taxes made US cars more expensive to build minimizing profits. The US auto industry moved to canada and mexico eliminating thousands of jobs for lower class people and sending the US in this so called double recession aka a depression. Unions have their place but can also be harmful to the economy.
and lousy management and lousy engineering and lousy cars
had nothing to do with it.
US auto industry never thought that 1) smaller cars with higher fuel efficiency would appeal to US drivers and 2) safety would be an issue for US drivers…until the competition taught them otherwise.
there are 4 car factories from Detroit to Ottawa and they are located in Canada. The jobs are still there
again look at what he's saying
i live in texas so gas is no issue. this state drives the most trucks. but the rest of america is gettin hit deep in the pockets by gas prices from declining sources in fossil fuels and natural gas.
yet ford, dodge, chevy, etc keep chugging out big heavy V8’s that have as good as fuel mileage as a gallardo but the quality of a neon. who wants to drive those? asia has made fuel-efficient vehicles now somewhat attractive and europe has been downsizing most of their sport cars
make something that people want to drive/can afford to drive and you sell it regardless. without unions jobs just get outsourced to cheap workers overseas thus decreasing the rightful profit americans should collect. maybe if the top 1% actually adapted to the hard times and the demands in the industry like the rest of the world they wouldnt be in such a bind to find cheaper workers
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 Aug 7, 2011 12:14 AM EDT up reply actions
2k11 ps3 questions
i finally got the game and have a few questions. how do you dunk? they always layup instead.
Second, how do you crossovers and those signature moves and stuff? the CPU always does em and idk how to.
Nets Mets Giants ALL DAY
Damn bro that's sad lol.
the Booklet tells you everything you need to kno. To help tho to dunk you hold turbo while pressing the shoot button
completely off topic
Arvydas Sabonis video featuring his passing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-v0fs1KeAI
7’3" center who could pass like a PG. Where is the next Sabonis?
Wilt Chamberlain just rolled over in his grave.
"This isn’t fantasy or rotisserie basketball. Why would Denver want Outlaw? Would you?" - Al Iannazzone
no way find video of sabonis before he came to the nba
when he had good knees and such; he could pass just as good as magic
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 Aug 7, 2011 12:16 AM EDT up reply actions
Sabonis could have been a monster in the NBA
if it weren’t because of his physical problems and the fact that he came to the NBA being so old… yet he was pretty solid.
Hey, all I need is the 7'3" number and I am watching
"Dont blame me, I was given this world, I didn’t make it."
-Tupac Shakur
by NetsMets4Life on Aug 6, 2011 4:30 PM EDT up reply actions
the players could also claim
that most of the owners cook the books and say they are losing money when they aren’t. That being said bot side have to concede and it should end up 54-46% in players favor.
the union is demanding
that the owners who have interests in third party entities, like their arenas, provide that data to them. The NBA provided tax returns and audited financials but refused to provide the third party data so the union went to the NLRB and asked them to require the league to run it over. NLRB has yet to rule.
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