{"id":39999,"date":"2011-07-01T08:19:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T15:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=39999"},"modified":"2011-07-01T08:40:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T15:40:28","slug":"nba-news-lockout-begins-1711","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/sports\/nba-news-lockout-begins-1711\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 NBA Lockout Begins! | Friday NBA Gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"

July 1st NBA Hoops News: Cappers Picks Headlines – Daily Sports Gossip<\/h2>\n

NBA news: Lockout Officially Begins, NBA.com Lockdown<\/strong><\/p>\n

Happy Canada Day to our Canadian Friends! <\/p>\n

It\u2019s no surprise but it\u2019s official: the NBA owners have locked out the players. (First time since 1998-99) Though the sides are apparently still far apart, the has no plans to decertify and will continue to negotiate.

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The NBA Lockout has begun...NOOOOO!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Players want a five-year deal and a soft salary cap whereas owners want a 10-year deal and a hard cap.<\/p>\n

During the lockout, no NBA business can happen, including trades, free-agent signings and team-organized workouts.<\/p>\n

Fans visiting the NBA’s website will find themselves somewhat locked out as well.<\/p>\n

The site is accessible, but the front page has removed the links to its 30 team pages. [soliloquy id=”82219″]<\/p>\n

The site was transformed in the weeks leading up to the lockout by NBA employees, whose jobs may be in jeopardy depending on the length of the lockout. Crazy!<\/p>\n

Also the NBA has already cancelled its annual summer league in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s sports water cooler talk. Here, you won\u2019t just find the straight news; you\u2019ll find the stuff everyone is talking about \u2013 the ice breakers, the\u00a0Twitter Sports Picks<\/a> and topics\u2026well, basically all the stuff you discuss at the water cooler.<\/p>\n

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Now you’re getting them. Razor’s plays are PUBLIC. Games are locked and loaded, Good luck today on your picks.<\/p>\n

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Comments are welcome below!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Looking for Sports Picks for all today’s Gambling Matchups? CLICK HERE!<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sports water cooler headlines and NBA basketball gossip for Friday July 1st 2011. Shea Matthews weighs in with his analysis and opinions on today\u2019s NBA action\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":38419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1141],"tags":[43541,22111,628,66499,37307,746,50170,748,50171,50144,50169,22115,22112,10922],"class_list":["post-39999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-cba","tag-daily-sports-news","tag-las-vegas","tag-nba","tag-nba-gossip","tag-nba-headlines","tag-nba-lockout","tag-nba-news","tag-nba-players-association","tag-nba-summer-league","tag-nba-com","tag-sports-gossip","tag-sports-headlines","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39999"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40013,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39999\/revisions\/40013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}