The NBA just kickstarted their lockout at 12:01AM today and players and owners are no longer friends. The owners and players union couldn’t come up with a deal that’ll fairly split millions and millions of dollars to millionaires and billionaires so they decided to lockout and cease relationships with one another (at least until a fair deal is made). That means the NBA can’t profit off their players by posting pictures of their star players online. It’s just coaches, assistant coaches, mascots, etc. (They can’t even contact players without suffering a $US1 million fine).
So no Dirk in championship glory for the Mavs, no pictures of the hope of Stat and Melo for the Knicks and no championship-party-before-you-won-the-championship party for the Heat. It’s funny because the lockout transforms the NBA’s websites – previously packed with game photos, awesome highlight clips and player features – into something that looks like it’s from 1998 (the NBA can post pictures of retired players, which only doubles the vintage effect). It’s miserable. Where’s my dunks? It’s no fun. Where’s my buzzer beaters? The website is like going back to law school with all these links about CBA’s and legal info. Just give me Blake Griffin.
Can you people who are richer than rich figure it out already? (You too, NFL) [NBA]
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