Asked: Who are your top 10 players in the NBA?

I haven't heard this asked for a while, and I think it's changed significantly recently.

My List:
1. Lebron (It's a no brainer to me at this point, as much as I dislike him)
2. Kobe
3. Durant
4. Derrick Rose (When Healthy)
5. Carmelo Anthony (Moving back up)
6. Kevin Love
7. Rajon Rondo (Love him or hate him, I feel that he's earned his spot)
8. Chris Paul
9. Dwight Howard (Dropped significantly lately)
10. James Harden (Earning his spot more and more everyday)

Asked: Who is right owners or players ?

The NHL's Problem: Only Three Teams Are Making Real Money 9/18/2012 10:28AM The NHL locked out its players Saturday night at midnight when its collective bargaining agreement expired. It is the leagues fourth work stoppage in the last 20 years. Like every stoppage, this one is about money and how to divvy up what is now a $3.3 billion pie.

If you are looking for comparisons among sports leagues, think NBA and not NFL, which both had lockouts over the past 14 months. The NFL lockout had only a single preseason game cancelled, while NBA owners lost 20% of their regular season and had to pack in the remaining 80% of games in five months. The NHL is scheduled to begin its regular season October 11 and that date is in serious jeopardy.
The NHLs problem is the widespread disparity in profits for its 30 teams. We estimated that 18 teams lost money during the 2010-11 season in our annual look at the business of hockey. Several other teams barely eked out a profit, but the leagues most flush teams made a killing. The Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers and Montreal Canadiens had an operating profit (in the sense of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) of $171 million combined. The other 27 NHL teams losta collective $44 million. If you add the Vancouver Canucks and Edmonton Oilers to the fat cats ledger, profits hit $212 million with the remaining 25 teams posting a loss of $86 million.

The concentration of wealth at the top is similar in the NBA. The three most profitable teams during the 2010-11 season, New York Knicks, Chicago Bulls and Cleveland Cavaliers (a 1-year anomaly where the team sold out its arena with a cut-rate payroll ahead of LeBron James skipping town), earned $167 million. The total represented 96% of the leagues estimated profits of $175 million. The NBA tripled revenue sharing in its new CBA to help prop up small market teams.

Why did the NFL settle with its players before any regular season games were lost? Look at the numbers. The NFLs richest teams, Dallas Cowboys, New England Patriots and Washington Redskins, earned a staggering $454 million last season. Yet, that total represented just 35% of the NFLs $1.3 billion in total operating profit. The NFL cut back its supplemental revenue sharing program in its latest CBA. It expects $45 billion in new TV agreements to prop up the low revenue teams and keep their profit margins high.

Baseball is the most equitable major U.S. sports league when it comes to sharing the wealth. No wonder it will have had 21 years of labor peace by the time its current CBA expires in 2016. The top three earners last season, Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Royals and Chicago Cubs, made $87 million, which is only 20% of MLBs $432 million in operating profit. High-revenue teams like the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox are content to run baseball operations with small profits, while making a killing through their ownership stakes in the regional sports networks that broadcast their games.

MLB has the heftiest supplemental revenue sharing system with roughly $400 million changing hands last season from the high revenue teams to the low revenue ones. The Yankees alone kicked in $110 million in revenue sharing in 2011.
The NHL is not in dire financial straits as it was in 2004 when a lockout caused the cancellation of an entire season. It does need the top teams to share more of the wealth if it wants to be healthier financially. The league currently shares about $150 million of its revenue and the league has proposed bumping that up to $190 million. The players association is looking for revenue sharing closer to $250 million. We know why the Maple Leafs, Rangers and Canadiens do not want that much revenue sharing. What about the other 27 teams?http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhau

Asked: How will the 2012-2013 Chicago Bulls do this season?

With the NBA season starting in less than 2 weeks, can the Bulls compete for a championship without D-Rose?

Here I'll state the best and the worst that could happen:

Best case scenario: Rose comes back in mid January, everyone else stays healthy, the new bench mob provides the well needed spark for the starters, Bulls makes a surprise run at Miami!

Worst cast scenario: Rose never comes back, injuries to Noah, Deng, and others pile up, Hinrich won't be able to fill the heavy workload for the PG position, the new additions fail to live up to expectations, Bulls fall short of the playoffs!

IGTBTK Asked: Alright Heat and Celtic Fans…?

We need to stop arguing about our draft picks. They haven't even played any games in the NBA. First Justin Hamilton isn't that bad hes a big guy and that's what the Heat need. He has a good jump shot but we have to wait and see how well he performs in an NBA game vs NBA defenders. Highly doubtful he's the next Dirk… Jared Sullinger is not the next Greg Oden. Hopefully he can get his back worked out and have a healthy career. Best of luck to Justin Hamilton, Jared Sullinger and Fab Melo.

IGTBTK Asked: Alright Heat and Celtic Fans…?

We need to stop arguing about our draft picks. They haven't even played any games in the NBA. First Justin Hamilton isn't that bad hes a big guy and that's what the Heat need. He has a good jump shot but we have to wait and see how well he performs in an NBA game vs NBA defenders. Highly doubtful he's the next Dirk… Jared Sullinger is not the next Greg Oden. Hopefully he can get his back worked out and have a healthy career. Best of luck to Justin Hamilton, Jared Sullinger and Fab Melo.

Yea Buddy Asked: Basketball fans: CALM THE F*ck DOWN!!?

whenever your team wins or a team you hate loses everyone FREAKS out!

I'm a huge basketball fan.(a Houston and Miami fan)but is hating ANY team worth it??

I mean we act like NBA is everything and its the end of the world if your team loses, while some people are lying in hospitals struggling to survive each day us healthy, lucky, spoiled people spend our time hating … hating things that arent worth hating.

Basketball should NOT be taken this seriously?