Dan Gilbert and Robert Sarver killed CBA deal

[Anti Hero]

Owners and players initially found reason for optimism during Tuesday's meetings. Commissioner David Stern and Peter Holt, the head of the owners' executive committee, felt that the players' proposal to take 52 or 53 percent of basketball-related income, compared to 57 under the previous agreement, was basically fair, sources said.

Owners were seriously considering coming off of their demand for a salary freeze and would allow players' future earnings to be tied into the league's revenue growth, a critical point for players. The owners also were willing to allow the players to maintain their current salaries, without rollbacks, sources said.

But when the owners left the players to meet among themselves for around three hours, Cleveland's Dan Gilbert and Phoenix's Robert Sarver expressed their dissatisfaction with many of the points, sources said. The sources said that the Knicks' James Dolan and the Lakers' Jerry Buss were visibly annoyed by the hardline demands of Gilbert and Sarver.

F*ck Sarver

[Theoo's Daddy]

my timberlands would like to have a meeting with dan gilberts face.

[PJR]

Robert Sarver is a piece of shit who should have never been accepted as an owner. And we all know Dan Gilbert is still on his jilted lover steez. A deal will get done though. These dudes voices are loud, but not that loud. For every Sarver, and Gilbert, and Ted Leonis, there's a Jerry Buss, Mark Cuban, Micky Arison who will get the ball rolling.

[Knicksfever2010]

F*ck Sarver

i bet wilbon will find a way to say that gilbert is being a racist because of the lockout. wilbon is a blowhard that can't get off the air soon enough

[Clippersfan86]

See Donald Sterling is considered the most frugal A hole owner in the league by some people.... yet he wasn't the one bit**ing about the split. Goes to show what people know. Thanks a lot Sarver and Gilbert .

[RRR3]

[DuMa]

cheap ass mother****ers

[kaiiu]

haha yall mad as fvck.

[Clippersfan86]

haha yall mad as fvck.

You're not mad because nobody is excited to see the Cavs this year, including you .

[kaiiu]

You're not mad because nobody is excited to see the Cavs this year, including you .

U mad as fvck. How u like that #1 pick the Clippers won this year? thats rite... yall traded it for Mo shot Mo problems...*******

[PJR]

U mad as fvck. How u like that #1 pick the Clippers won this year? thats rite... yall traded it for Mo shot Mo problems...*******

Who cares really. The Clippers core is set. The Cavs would trade their entire roster for Blake Griffin(including Kyrie)

[kaiiu]

These ni99as mad as fvck

[Sarcastic]

Stern said the deal was fair. It's not gonna get held up because of these jerk offs.

[guy]

I actually feel optimistic if its just those 2 owners that weren't okay with it. If its just 2 owners, I can't imagine them not getting a deal done.

But man, as much I hate Dan Gilbert, this just makes me hate Lebron even more. Is it really possible that the ultimate result of his "decision" would be possibly missed games or even a season? Not to say he didn't have his right, obviously Gilbert has a bigger axe to grind for how it went down.

[bagelred]

ESPN - In a stunning announcement today, the National Basketball Association has decided to contract the Phoenix Suns and Cleveland Cavaliers, thus reducting the total number of teams to 28. Robert Sarver and Dan Gilbert, owners of the teams respectively, were last seen being tossed outside the NBA Headquarters by a variety of NBA executives and security personnel.

More as this story develops........

Done and done.