Sportsbetting on the NBA could be taking a little break after next season if the NBA and the players don’t get together. Much of the sports betting online talk about lockouts has surrounded the NFL but the NBA could be in the same situation for the 2011-2012 sportsbetting season.
Sportsbetting had the last NBA lockout during the 1998-1999 season. Three months of the sports betting online season were lost and the league played a 50-game schedule. Sportsbetting has man NBA players believing that another lockout is on the horizon. Denver All-Star guard Chauncey Billups said to a website that he thinks a lockout is likely. “It’s very, very possible there’s going to be a lockout,” said Billups, “The only thing I tell guys is, ‘Save your money so you’ll be able to withstand however long it is.”’ The owners have already presented a proposal to the players union and the two sides are nowhere close. They will be negotiating again this weekend in Dallas.
Since the economic times are tough, NBA owners are going to tell the players they are going to have to take a substantial pay cut. The owners want more of a hard salary cup and as sportsbetting indicates, they want to reduce the 57 percent of basketball-related income that the players receive. Sports betting online had the owners looking at shortening the maximum length of contracts from six years to four.
Sportsbetting has the current CBA expiring June 10th of next year which means the 2011-2012 season is in jeopardy. Sports betting indicates that the NBA is not going to pick up their option so the two sides will have to come up with a new one. “I wouldn’t be surprised (if there is a lockout). That’s the card the owners hold. And the negotiations begin.” Phoenix guard Steve Nash said.
Sports betting online indicated that many of the players are really not prepared for a lockout so it will be interesting to see how the negotiations go. The new age of players simply don’t seem as well prepared to go to war. “For us to be stable, we need more of our young stars to attend those meetings,” Miami’s Jermaine O’Neal said, “Once the owners see more of the young stars, and not just some of the older players, they probably will see it’s really important to our game (to get a deal done).”