Nba Lockout Continues(Essay Done During the Lockout in 2011)

Lockout Continues; NBA Stars Own League?

Should this be taken seriously or to get League Owners attention? Whatever the case maybe can the Nba Stars form their own league and be successful. This previous Tuesday NBA commissioner David Stern canceled the first two weeks of the 2011-12 regular NBA Season, causing many people to think and wonder when this lockout will ever end. New York Knick’s Starting Power Forward Amare’ Stoudemire posed to want to start his own league with other NBA stars such as, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade and LeBron James just to name a few. Most would say this type of approach is "asinine."

But is it really? Role players, based on this formula (Skully Formula; for example Hank Aaron had a $520,800 value to the Atlanta Braves in 1968 and Sandy Koufax $725,000 to the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1966, which was his last season. By comparison, Aaron’s top salary never exceeded $250,000 a season in his 23-year career and Koufax earned his highest salary, $130,000, in his last season as a pro, far less than their worth to the team.), would come away with more money than what has been speculated in the ongoing negotiations with the NBA owners and players.

By creating and running their own league, this era created by current NBA players would ultimately build larger profits for the players to distribute because they no longer would have to share them with owners.

The players could either use this new league to prosper and grow to a point where they could completely separate themselves from the NBA. Or this could be used as a ploy to convince the NBA owners a better bargaining agreement must be created. Either way, the players should stand firm and keep the upper hand by proving they have the capability to operate a league.

Already without the NBA many players have found ways to make money and continue doing the thing they love holding charitable events, basketball games in different cities bi-weekly with players such as, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane...