Glad you're optimistic. I will say this....the owner's are pretty smart. Commissioner Stern and his group will win this deal no matter what, but they just put every marble onto the players side. If the players agreed, the two teams get equal credit and the owner's might actually get praised for conceding enough, not to mention they still get a deal.

If the players reject the deal on the table now, they look like the bad guys. The owner's are pretty dang smart. The players will be blamed for continuing the lockout, when indeed they are rejected an offer that is not good for them, but it's the best yet.

I think the players will accept the offer on Monday, Stern and co. will meet with Fisher and co. and they will pound out the rest and we will be done next Wednesday. They will immediately start the new free agency period and training camps. That's my prediction.

I have been looking around and it seems they will de-certify next, not end lockout.

The players are split right now some wanting to decertify and take it to the courts and the rest willing to accept the offer. Honestly, I don't see the players accepting the deal seeing as far as they have taken this thing. The problem is which no one seems to want to talk about is the fact 85% of the players in the league can go play overseas which will severly hurt the Owner's chances to actually make this happen and the fact some players are seeking to take this to court (not basketball court) shows that they really want a fair shot at getting the money owed to them.

Also, I put the blame soley on the Billy Hunter and Fish for one reason. It never seemed like they had a solid game plan going into this situation. For Hunter to come out and say he saw the Lockout playing out like this yet, the players lose footing everyday they do not agree with the owners, shows that Hunter might have seen it but he had no kind of gameplan coming except "Stall until we get what we want!"

BUT, hopefully something will happen soon my Tuesday, wednesday, and thursday nights are completely screwed up thanks to the lockout.

I hope the players accept the deal, but I think they'll reject it and want to negotiate more.

the fan in me wants the lockout to end but i would understand if the players rejected the owners offer and decertified as a matter of fact if i was in the players position thats exactly i would do because the players have gave and gave more to the owners and it never seems to be enough thats not negotiating that is a group of people in the owners who are just being plain greedy IMO

Nope, sorry