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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
They don't want to destroy the industry. It's more of the typical Union "us against them" mentality where they feel they are always being screwed by the owners and deserve more. Conversely owners try their best to keep as much money in their pockets as possible.
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I think this really comes down to how disruptive are the olympics? The players want to go so what do the owners really lose by letting them go? There is no reduction in games played, so no revenue lost there. An argument could be made that the compressed schedule creates a greater risk for injury, but that risk affects both sides. It will simply be used as a bargaining chip by the owners to get some concessions from the PA in the next round of bargaining. If they simply give it to the players without getting anything significant, they lose that leverage, and frankly the league doesn't have very many other options to leverage over the players besides cancelling a season so they will use whatever else they can.