Kevin Love and Blake Griffin concerned about the affect of NBA lockout on the workers – NBA News
Blake Griffin and Kevin Love are two of the most promising stars of NBA. The duo was sensational last season and bewitched the league with their exceptional brand of basketball. However, Love and Griffin have not been able to showcase
their brilliance so far and the reason for that is the NBA Lockout.
The two stars are frustrated with the work stoppage. However, this is not the only thing, they are fretting about. Love and griffin have expressed concern for the large number of people suffering as a result of the NBA lockout.
The pair believes that the lockout is bigger than just the owners and players and it should be brought to an end as soon as possible.
The NBA lockout began in July and is now deep into its 4th month. With training camps and pre-season lost already, another blow came on Monday, October 10, when NBA Commissioner David Stern cancelled 100 regular season
games from November 1st to November 14th.
Love has expressed dismay at the situation. The Minnesota Timberwolves power forward said that although the owners and players had become the face of the lockout, it was actually hurting a wide range of people. These included the
staffs of NBA franchises and various workers in the NBA arenas.
"Any time that we miss from here on out is disheartening. Not only for the players or for the owners, but all the way down through the NBA," he said, according to ESPN. "All the jobs that are lost and the pay checks that are missed.
Not only for us or the owners, but for the concessions or people working ticket sales. People working the whole game. Really, the front office all the way down through the trainers and the equipment managers and the ball boys."
The NBA employs scores of people in all sorts of capacities whose livelihoods have already started to suffer because of the NBA lockout. Although the dispute is regarding a Collective Bargaining Agreement, and how the vast revenue
coming into the league will be split between NBA owners and players, it is threatening people who don’t have much to do with it.
That has become an underlying concern for a lot of the NBA community. Charles Barkley, the Hall of Famer who is now an analyst on TV, expressed similar concerns not long ago, with some NBA franchise already laying-off workers.
Los Angeles Clipper live wire Blake Griffin also weighed in on the matter. He urged an early resolution to the dispute, and called for it to be a fair one seeing how it would affect a large number of athletes.
"We have to wait for a deal that's fair for both sides," insisted Griffin. "It's not just about the players. It's about the guys that are coming after us and the guys that are about to retire. "
The NBA and players have been unable to find common ground after over a year on the negotiating table and continue to blame each other for the turmoil. Matters are though expected to get better with a federal mediator now overlooking
negotiations.
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