Schwa.

Yeah, the NHL is in far worse shape, I think, because they're not just fighting the market, they're also fighting keeping teams in markets that are totally not viable. Wonder if we'll see either League shrink it's number of teams in the future.

I was totally thinking the same thing the whole time but didn't want to be "that guy"

Just wanted to back that up a bit. Forbes: 12 NBA Teams Lost Money Last Season Forbes has its annual report on NBA team valuations, revenue and operating income out. The headline might be that in its championship season, the Lakers finally supplanted the Knicks as the league's franchise worth the most, up 4 percent to $607 million. The Knicks' value dropped 4 percent to $586 million after having claimed the top spot for four consecutive seasons, despite terrible on-court performance. But the real news is likely that 12 NBA teams -- some 40 percent of the league's franchises -- are reported to have lost money last season. The biggest losers happen to be winners: Paul Allen's Blazers are reported to have lost $20 million, and the Mavericks are reported to have lost $17 million. Three other winning teams lost money (Orlando, Atlanta, New Orleans), but the rest of the deficit contingent is made up of the league's worst squads of a year ago (Pacers, Bobcats, Nets, Bucks, Grizzlies, Wolves, Kings). Of course, if you want to look at the bright side, in that awful, awful economy, 18 of the league's 30 franchises actually made money. Perhaps that's a positive. Forbes doesn't spin it as such, but you imagine the league might do so. (The league and individual teams do not typically disclose revenue, operating income or any financial data.) The sheer number of teams losing money might worry the league, but the NBA has a whole turned a great profit last year based on the strength of the top flight, big-market squads. The Lakers and Bulls each made more than $50 million in profit, and two others -- the Pistons and Rockets -- surpassed the $30 million mark. Even the lowly Knicks managed to net $21 million. Of particular interest is that the Thunder, in its first season in Oklahoma City, managed to pull a substantially positive operating income of $12.7 million. The value of Clay Bennett's franchise also rose 3 percent, to $310 million. That was the league's fourth largest value increase. The Blazers, despite losing that $20 million, saw its franchise value jump a remarkable 10 percent to $338 million. They sure choose to highlight the positive in that article, but with 40% of the League's teams losing money year after year I just don't see how they can survive.

IMO. Failure after failure after failure..... I actually think the entire league will fail before long. in the long term. The league is losing hundreds of millions of dollars per year.

OWNZ! OWNZ!

Basketball in Canada is done and the next fucking lockout is surely imminent.

fucking bullpen. 'nuf said. I hope they get a bonified_fucking_closer sometime soon.

wow. that is a crazy contract but it looks like it's really only for about 11 years with some retirement money thrown in at the end of it.

cool

SO! Whose willing to put me up for 10 days next year...oh, say......July-ish?

I don't get the purple font, basher. what if c-towns is not a registered face-crack user? (which he isn't) Seems like a perfectly valid question to me.

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nice1, bb

By the sounds of it the best way to get back at him is to withdraw any and all help you used to give him.

Sounds like they're barking up the wrong tree.

Cats are lame

ignor'd

magazine subscriptions. lots of them.