8th Circuit Court Grants Stay, Lockout Continues

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I am not alleging for the record that the players should have accepted the March 11th proposal by the league. It wasn't good enough. But they should have extended the deadline and pushed off that framework with the decertification threat as leverage.

Because now that it's gone through the 8th circut, I see the supreme court as the only possible reason the players did any of this in the first place. De Smith, I believe, was smart enough to know that the district court PI ruling wouldn't hold up on appeal, and he more or less alluded to as much in post-ruling interviews.