dhackett1565 wrote:Revenue sharing will definitely be part of the agreement - I believe the owners have said they have already agreed on a basic revenue sharing concept that will be much more aggressive than the current model.
Revenue sharing will definitely not be a part of the agreement. It never is. While it's been clear the owners have been discussing the issue, Stern has made it patently clear several times that revenue sharing would only be considered once the new CBA was ironed out. The real question here is what the NBA had to hide that they couldn't have finalized revenue sharing before the CBA was ironed out. Negotiations would have gone a whole lot smoother if they could have proven that their funds were all divied up evenly and every team was losing money rather than some teams making loads and other teams losing money.
Also, the fact that revenue sharing hasn't been agreed upon and won't be seriously looked at until the CBA is ironed out has given the wealthier owners a chance to try and predict what the landscape will look like and adjust their revenue streams so that a lot of it won't get counted for what is expected any future kind of revenue sharing would look like - like the Celtics new TV deal. And you also have businesses like comcast locking themselves into lnog-term sweetheart tv deals with the Sixers and then selling the team once they got what they wanted limiting the revenue potential of the team going forward, but not hurting comcast's.
