Re: Lockout

["Cecil Wright" <cecil@hfx.andara.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Phe Meas <pmeas98@yahoo.com>
To: celtics@igtc.com <celtics@igtc.com>
Date: Saturday, November 28, 1998 12:40 PM
Subject: Lockout


>Don't put a cap on how much a player can make and leave things the way
>they are but........
>
>Why can't the owners have some sort of deal among themselves as to how
>much a player should be paid?
>
>For instance, Walker asks for $20 million a year. The owners agreed
>not to pay any player more than $8 million a year. Walker doesn't sign
>with his own team, but no other teams will sign him for over $8
>million so he doesn't have a choice but to sign for $8 million with
>some team or take the year off.
>
It's called collusion which has been previously deemed as illegal in a court
of law.

Cecil