Word: nba
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After weeks of watching baseball imbibe arsenic and hockey slit its own throat, fans all across the country were thrilled by the news that the NBA season, threatened by a lockout, was going to start on schedule November...
...Baseball and hockey may be throwing up bricks, but the NBA isn't: Owners and players announced a temporary agreement today to play the season under a no-strike, no-lockout pledge while negotiating a new collective bargaining deal. This means that even though the players don't have a contract, the basketball season starts November 4. The key issue in the talks -- just as it is throughout pro sports -- is the players' salary cap: The owners want to close loopholes in cap rules, while the players are trying to abolish the cap, adopted...
Making it to the NBA: it's the worst dream a boy can have. Even if he's one of the 50,000 or so high school phenoms in a year, his chances are only one in 2,000 that he will play NBA basketball. And once there, the kid is more likely to be a bench jockey, a Harthorne Wingo, than an idol-of-millions type like the Detroit Pistons' Isiah Thomas...
...four-year high school tour, William is an old man with a damaged knee, a child to support and some rueful wisdom: "When somebody said, 'When you turn nba, don't forget about me' and all that stuff, I should've said to them, 'If I don't make it, well, don't you forget about...
...guess the NFL likes its newlyfound monopoly of air-time. And I guess the NBA is soon to follow, its own labor turmoil wisely closeted for at least this year...