Occupy Wall Street and the FIFA Coins NBA lockout among other things. While all of it
was rather interesting as there aren't many opportunities to watch the President
of the United States on a late-night talk show, the President's talk of the NBA
negotiations stood out in the video of the interview.Obama, a noted basketball
enthusiast, has previously went on record saying the NBA lockout has him
heartbroken.
He reiterated that fact on Buy FIFA Mobile Coins Tuesday night while explaining the NBA should
solve it's lockout just like the NFL did. Well look. If you look at the NFL,
they were able to settle theirs and I think they understood. Players: "We're
making millions of dollars. Owners: "Some of us are worth billions of dollars."
We should be able to figure out how to split a nine-billion-dollar pot so that
our fans, who are allowing us to make all of this money, can actually have a
good season.
And I think the owners and the basketball players need to think the same
way.The President went on to say he's worried about missing the entire NBA
season. I'm concerned about that. They need to remind themselves that the reason
they are sosuccessfulis because a whole bunch of folks out there love
basketball. Basketball's actually done well, but these kinds of lockouts ... a
lot of times take it takes a long time to recover from.
Oh, and for more hot sports takes from the President, he doesn't care who
wins the World Series because his White Sox aren't in it -- but he does want to
see a good game. In this Storystream 2011 NBA Lockout: Full Coverage Of League's
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