While many of today’s players never faced Michael Jordan on the court, it would serve them well to bone-up on his biography. Now that Jordan is an NBA owner, he’s still playing with a championship mentality, as are the rest of the NBA owners, who are standing firm in the negotiations with the Players Union. How firm> So firm that some current players are calling Jordan a “sellout” for his stance in these negotiations. The two sides are about five percentage points and millions of dollars apart, and there is growing frustration among the players, some of whom have questioned the union’s leadership and President Derek Fisher. In fact, about 50 players got together on a conference call to legal experts about decertification of the union. It appears there may be no pro hoops through the holidays, and the longer the lockout goes on, the more it favors the league owners. That may not sound sensible right now, but in the long term, it will. The pressure right now is actually on the players, and many of them whose names are not LaBron, Kobe, or Dwayne, ARE feeling it.
