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Originally Posted by Ruhskins
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Its official now. Personally I think its a good thing, and a situation where I doubt I'll be favoring the players anytime soon, unlike my back and fourth with the NFL situation.
Pro's:
- A much improved Wizards team would still get credit for their dismal record over the last few years and have a great chance of winning an aggregate lottery. The same type that netted the Pens Sidney Crosby after the NHL lockout.
- John Walls legs get a year off.
- If the owners win a hard cap or flex cap gets implemented. Either way the days of teams like Boston and LA trying to buy championships would be over.
- Lebron can't win a championship for another year.
Con's
- Veasly misses out on a chance to learn the NBA game for a year.
- We also loose a year in the development of guys like McGee, Crawford, and Wall.
-A hard cap makes it difficult for teams to keep players they drafted. One of the great things about the current NBA system is that players can almost always stay in the city they're drafted. Unfortunately now it's being used by star players to cry their way out of small markets.
- No basketball, but in referring to the pros section a year off might be necessary to overhaul a system that is very much anti-parity.
I guess in the end the best realistic possibility would be a shortened season that got our guys experience while overhauling the anti-parity system that strongly favors teams like Boston and LA.