Updated Title: 8th Circuit Court Grants Stay, Lockout Reinstated

[Schneed10]

Well I don't think anybody is suggesting the league is going to install 2010 rules under which to move forward. By definition, they can't install any rules without bargaining in good faith with the players.

Absent any collective bargaining agreement, and given Judge Nelson's recent ruling, the league has to move forward under a free market system. No salary cap, all clauses (as JR mentioned) have to be explicitly installed into each individual contract, etc.

What this does is put all the pressure on the owners to come to a quick agreement with the players. If they get the players to agree to using 2010 rules under the pretense that further bargaining will take place to establish a new CBA, that is not collusion at all.

The whole point of Judge Nelson's ruling is to say, you can't lock out the players, now get back to the table and negotiate immediately, or you're going to have to move forward without any rules in place.