NBA lockout over....

**slim pickens** · 11-26-2011, 03:45 AM

Report: NBA owners, players get tentative deal - ESPN

**jonjd** · 11-26-2011, 04:08 AM

Excellent news.

**Deleterious** · 11-26-2011, 04:10 AM

Good. I watched two college games this week and wanted to put a gun in my mouth.

Poor Denver. Three of their main rotation guys signed in China. They are going to be really bad this year.

**Chopper** · 11-26-2011, 06:34 AM

These idiots finally figured out most people don't care. A poll was recently taken and 75% of the people polled said they didn't care if the NBA played this year or not. At least the vendors and arena staff are back to work. The players can go **** themselves with the owners right behind them.

**monkeynuts** · 11-26-2011, 10:29 AM

Originally Posted by Chopper

These idiots finally figured out most people don't care. A poll was recently taken and 75% of the people polled said they didn't care if the NBA played this year or not. At least the vendors and arena staff are back to work. The players can go **** themselves with the owners right behind them.

Ditto - I know I shouldn't post here if I don't care about them, but I wish they were out all year. I just can't stand the NBA at the moment. They need to get rid of 6-8 teams or something to make it better.

**DTroppens** · 11-26-2011, 10:59 AM

I just saw if flashing on the ol' ESPN News line (just woke up) and was going to post about it.

It'll be interesting to see how similar the schedules remain or if they'll jostle the dates to create a semi-traditional schedule.

I still might go to that Oakland U game.

**Truth** · 11-26-2011, 11:12 AM

Originally Posted by Chopper

These idiots finally figured out most people don't care. A poll was recently taken and 75% of the people polled said they didn't care if the NBA played this year or not. At least the vendors and arena staff are back to work. The players can go **** themselves with the owners right behind them.

I feel about the same way. I keep thinking that if the Pistons were better I might be excited by this news but then I think of the new owner's site and his photo gallery, something it looks like even Donald Trump has the good taste not to indulge in. The caption on this one is "Tom Gores of Platinum Equity and Detroit Pistons' President of Operations Joe Dumars." Nice shot of Joe (not that I really care), huh? Stupid I know, but I miss Davidson disappearing into the background dressed like a local hardware store clerk. Gores looks like he will need an entire section to accommodate his ego.

**wanker** · 11-26-2011, 12:09 PM

that's too bad

**monkeynuts** · 11-26-2011, 12:16 PM

I think attendance at the Palace might go from 150 people last year per game to 90 people this year.

**Deleterious** · 11-26-2011, 02:07 PM

The Pistons averaged over 16,500 per game last year. With the bad season and economy, very respectable numbers.

**monkeynuts** · 11-26-2011, 05:04 PM

Originally Posted by Deleterious

The Pistons averaged over 16,500 per game last year. With the bad season and economy, very respectable numbers.

Obviously I was exaggerating, but I went to a Pistons/Celtics game at the Palace last year and there were an unbelievable number of empty seats. There was zero energy...just dead.

**DTroppens** · 11-27-2011, 02:22 AM

Originally Posted by Deleterious

The Pistons averaged over 16,500 per game last year. With the bad season and economy, very respectable numbers.

What they averaged and what showed up are two totally different numbers. I have a hard time believing they really averaged 12,000 people who actually attended the games last year, much less 16,500.

**Deleterious** · 11-27-2011, 02:52 AM

Originally Posted by DTroppens

What they averaged and what showed up are two totally different numbers. I have a hard time believing they really averaged 12,000 people who actually attended the games last year, much less 16,500.

So? Those tickets were still paid for either way.

**jonjd** · 11-27-2011, 04:14 AM

Originally Posted by Deleterious

Good. I watched two college games this week and wanted to put a gun in my mouth.

I'm surprised to read this. You're such a basketball fan, and this year has been excellent thus far in the college ranks. See Kansas-Duke in Maui. There are so many good teams and such incredible talent this year. I love the NBA, but will always prefer college ball.

**DTroppens** · 11-28-2011, 04:57 PM

Originally Posted by Deleterious

So? Those tickets were still paid for either way.

There's a ton more revenue if those empty seats show up. At the very least there's a lot of revenue for parking.

**lesgoblu02** · 11-28-2011, 05:11 PM

I'd imagine a good portion of those empty seats were corporate seats that were "comp'd" as well.

**Deleterious** · 11-28-2011, 05:36 PM

Originally Posted by DTroppens

There's a ton more revenue if those empty seats show up. At the very least there's a lot of revenue for parking.

But they were still sold, right? The original comment wasn't about the bad atmosphere or low revenue.

**DTroppens** · 11-28-2011, 05:40 PM

Originally Posted by Deleterious

But they were still sold, right? The original comment wasn't about the bad atmosphere or low revenue.

I think it mentioned attendance, but was more discussing attendance based on who shows up. It mentioned attendance and then Monkeynuts clarified his position mentioning how dead it was there.

BTW,
It was always very dead when I went last year. I went to some games I don't think there were 6,000 people there.