{"id":11186,"date":"2011-11-07T15:16:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11186"},"modified":"2011-11-07T14:39:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T19:39:04","slug":"nba-owners-offer-players-51-revenues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11186","title":{"rendered":"NBA Owners Offer Players 51% Revenues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong> &#8212; NBA players have until Wednesday to accept <strong>Commissioner David Stern&#8217;s<\/strong> latest offer, though the response already seems obvious. &#8220;Right now, we&#8217;ve been given the ultimatum, and our answer is that&#8217;s not acceptable to us,&#8221; union president <strong>Derek Fisher<\/strong> said. But the next proposal promises to be worse, surely moving players and owners even further apart and threatening to destroy the season.<\/p>\n<p>Early Sunday morning, the league said it offered players up to 51 percent of basketball-related income &#8211; a figure the union insists is fiction. Regardless, it will drop to 47 percent Wednesday if players don&#8217;t accept the current offer by the league-imposed deadline. No agreement by the deadline likely will trigger more calls to disband the union and take on the league in court, a battle that would take months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; NBA players have until Wednesday to accept Commissioner David Stern&#8217;s latest offer, though the response already seems obvious. &#8220;Right now, we&#8217;ve been given the ultimatum, and our answer is that&#8217;s not acceptable to us,&#8221; union president Derek Fisher said. But the next proposal promises to be worse, surely moving players and owners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}