David Sampson

what he was saying is will i go to the actual table you don't need the commissioner of the nba to be at this table at any time but what they've done is they've extended the deadline first by 30 days 40 days so it's been a total of 70 days which all you're doing is delaying a work stoppage you want to get to that work stoppage because that's a legal term of art you want to get to some sort of lockout or strike so then it can go to the next stage of these negotiations

but the biggest misunderstanding here is that the players in the wmba want to have a pegged revenue number the way they have it in the nba and adam silver is saying no because the nba owners are saying no because that's not taking to into account all the money that the wmba owners need to profit and take off the table to pay down debt that has been accruing over the decades of losses

So that is why they're not having a meeting of the minds on any percentage, which is why the NBA is offering minimum salaries increasing like up to a million dollars, because then you can absolutely chart and express what your expenses will be and then what your profits will be.

No, it's funny, the union tends to do that more than we do, but we just keep a piece of paper and we put a value to everything.

So we know the exact price per team to establish housing for the players.

We know the exact price per percentage of ERISA benefits that we would give, which are retirement benefits.

We know what it means for every team's payroll if the minimum is 250 grand instead of 150 grand.

So we're just trading off a column during CBA negotiations where if we give this, we want that back.

And what the owners always say is that they wanna come out ahead on their columns.

They wanna get more than they give.

So that's why there's no specific landing point to any issue during a negotiation because all the issues are intertwined and you tend to settle everything at the end and that's when an agreement comes.

But until that point, you've actually agreed to nothing

well the truth is you agree to a bunch of stupid stuff that you get out of the way when negotiations first start and then you get an issues list of like 50 items that are all negotiated sort of together because they move in lockstep so you're really trying to get a landing spot for tons of issues not just housing or minimums or tagging a percentage of revenue

Maybe the end of the WNBA.

The players will move.

There's not going to be a fixed number.

It doesn't make sense to me for the WNBA to demand that, for the players to demand that right now.

I understand.

The biggest thing they did wrong

They said this is their moment.