The Lockout is over!

[Teagz]

Finally!!!!

So excited right now.

 

[DJT]

YESSSSSSSSS its about time!

I'm still a bit pissed at both sides for having it last so long.

I find it funny how the players wanted 52, the owners wanted 50-50 and they end up taking like a 49-51 deal. LOL

Anyone know more of the details???

 

[Giantmetfan07]

Technically the deal can go as high as 51-49 for the Players depending on annual growths.

 

[Giantmetfan07]

http://sheridanhoops.com/2011/11/26/nba-lockout-agreement-settlement-details/#more-2390

On the financial split, the players will receive between 49 and 51 percent of revenues, depending on annual growth. The players had complained prior to Saturday that the owners’ previous offer effectively limited them to 50.2 percent of revenues, but the source said 51 percent was now reasonably achievable with robust growth.

_Owners dropped their insistence on what would have been known as the Carmelo Anthony rule, preventing teams from executing extend-and-trade deals similar to the one that sent Anthony from the Denver Nuggets to the New York Knicks last season. This means that if Dwight Howard, Deron Williams and Chris Paul want to leverage their way out of Orlando, New Jersey and New Orleans, they will still be eligible to sign four-year extensions with their current teams before being immediately traded elsewhere.

_ Teams above the salary cap will be able to offer four-year mid-level exception contracts to free agents each season. Previously, owners were asking that teams be limited to offering a four-year deal one year, a three-year deal the next, then four, then three, etc.

_ The rookie salary scale and veteran minimum salaries will stay the same as they were last season. Owners had been seeking 12 percent cuts.

_ Qualifying offers to restricted free agents will become “significantly” improved. The sides had already agreed to reduce the time for a team to match an offer to a restricted free agent from 7 days to 3.

_ A new $2.5 million exception will be available to teams that go blow the salary cap, then use all of their cap room to sign free agents. Once they are back above the cap, they will be able to use the new exception instead of being limited to filling out their rosters with players on minimum contracts.

_ The prohibition on luxury tax-paying teams from executing sign-and-trade deals was loosened, although the freedom to execute those types of deals will still be limited.

 

[DJT]

Hmmm kinda seems like the players made out of this pretty good...still reading up on it.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

I'm extremely happy. Just found out!

 

[MR.ballin]

About time

 

[RipCity32]

I. Am. So. Happy. Right. Now.

 

[lonesomefx]

YEAH CARMELO! YEAH CARMELO! YEAH CARMELO! YEAH CARMELO!

I'm super hype to get to see my Knicks back on the floor. STAT and Melo need to go ham, we need to play D and try and get us a damn ring lol. Iman Shumpert looks like a pretty good player from what I saw him do during the lockout tbh. Hopefully that transitions well during NBA games.

 

[Elite]

Wait until STAT's knees find out that he's going to play a bunch of back-to-backs this season, the shortened season is the worst thing that could happen to him.

 

[buzzy]

This calls for a return of my rotating 60+ NBA gifs.

Which weirdly enough are being stretched to 150x150. :/

 

[lonesomefx]

Wait until STAT's knees find out that he's going to play a bunch of back-to-backs this season, the shortened season is the worst thing that could happen to him.

:kanye:

I ain't even mad tho. It's a team game, we need to find some chemistry and put in work.

 

[Pugz]

This calls for a return of my rotating 60+ NBA gifs.

Which weirdly enough are being stretched to 150x150. :/

still some dope avys. i always loved em.

:kanye:

I ain't even mad tho. It's a team game, we need to find some chemistry and put in work.

sure, its a team game but your team needs amare on the floor.

 

[buzzy]

still some dope avys. i always loved em.

Are they being shown in proper dimensions for you?
Cause they're stretched to a 150x150 square for me, which looks shitty.

 

[Pugz]

Are they being shown in proper dimensions for you?
Cause they're stretched to a 150x150 square for me, which looks shitty.

pretty sure its still 150x150 for me too =/