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Old 11-25-2020, 06:39 PM   #213
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Yeah I wouldn't say the circumstances are the exact same ... as last week. Let alone July.
None of us have a crystal ball to predict the future but the league used a number of projection models to predict as many possible outcomes for where we would be at, none of which would have been exactly right but at least one of the potential outcomes was a scenario very similar to where we are right now.

If that is the case it works against an argument that the circumstances have obviously worsened because the stats/circumstances related to the pandemic aren’t the circumstances that the league needs to argue have changed. The league would need to argue that there was no way they could have foreseen this decrease in revenue happening when they signed the MOU, but that doesn’t appear to be the case here.

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If the owners negotiated a dumb deal the players have every right to hold them too it. But if the view is 50/50 either within this time frame or down the road it doesn't make a lot of sense to damage the industry and their own livelihoods when the situation is obviously worse, and not that hard to prove.
I don’t think the players are trying to harm the league, rather they are trying to protect themselves from having the league attempt to get out of any agreements negotiated in the future as that could potentially have a much more deleterious effect on the PA going forward than a lost season would. .
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