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Dwyane Wade bringing four-city, NBA lockout all-star tour to Chicago on Dec. 7. Tickets for game at UIC on sale at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

 

Hopefully about 10 people buy tickets and the players realize they better accept the owners' deal and start playing some f***ing basketball.

The Freakonomics view of the NBA lockout.

Hopefully about 10 people buy tickets and the players realize they better accept the owners' deal and start playing some f***ing basketball.

 

You realize its a lockout and not a strike, right?

i'm going to buy tickets.

i'm going to buy tickets.

I'm really considering it. Any idea how much they are going to cost?

zero idea. Hopefully not too bad.

Thanks for the reminder, Yahoo.

Scheduling/location notes.

After filing two separate antitrust lawsuits against the league in different states, NBA players are consolidating their efforts and have turned to the courts in Minnesota as their chosen venue.

 

A group of named plaintiffs including Carmelo Anthony, Steve Nash and Kevin Durant filed an amended federal lawsuit against the league in Minnesota on Monday, hoping the courts there will be as favorable to them as they have been to NFL players in the past.

 

The locked-out players filed class-action antitrust suits against the league last Tuesday in California and Minnesota. The California complaint was withdrawn Monday.

 

"The likelihood was we'd get a faster result in Minnesota than California," players' lawyer David Boies said. "I think the result would be the same."

 

NBA owners locked out the players July 1, and the labor strife between the two sides has forced games to be canceled through Dec. 15.

 

"This is consistent with Mr. Boies' inappropriate shopping for a forum that he can only hope will be friendlier to his baseless legal claims," Rick Buchanan, NBA executive vice president and general counsel, said in a statement.

 

Federal court in Minnesota was the venue for all NFL labor disputes that reached the courts for the past two decades. The NFL players enjoyed several victories over the owners there, most recently when U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson issued a temporary injunction this summer that lifted the NFL's owner-imposed lockout. That decision was stayed and eventually overturned on appeal by the 8th Circuit in St. Louis.

 

Boies insisted the only reason to pick Minnesota was to speed up the process. The first case management conference in California had been scheduled for March 9, although the sides could have requested the date to be moved up. Boies expected a hearing in Minnesota next month.

 

"The docket is less congested there," he said. "They have a good track record of handling these kind of cases very promptly."

 

The owners had already filed a lawsuit of their own in the Southern District of New York, a venue that has issued several NBA-friendly rulings over the years, and could file a motion to have the Minnesota case moved there.

J.R. Smith suffers knee injury in first CBA game

 

Yahoo! Sports Adrian Wojnarowski reports that NBA free agent guard and former Nugget J.R. Smith was carried off the basketball court after injuring his knee in the first game with his new team in China. J.R.'s father later said that he was just "sore". Who to believe?

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Scheduling/location notes.

 

From that same article:

 

The NBA must submit its response by Dec. 5. The case has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Patrick J. Schiltz.

 

Schiltz is my Contracts prof's husband. I've talked to him, he's a pretty intelligent dude. /personal tangent

Basketball is back December 25th. I assume we'll see DRose vs Kobe on Christmas, the schedule will look a whole lot different but that shouldn't change.

 

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Adrian Wojnarowski

The NBA and players have reached an agreement on a deal, source says. The season will start on Dec. 25.

2 minutes ago via web

 

rejoice, jerks

YES!!!! :headbang :headbang

Please let there be an amnesty clause (don't think I could take another season of watching Gilbert on a max deal).

 

Fantastic news though, although the proposal still needs to be voted on and accepted.

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