NBA Players establish leverage with overseas possibilities

We’re a few weeks into the NBA lockout and, as expected, no movement has been made toward ending the stalemate. The power, based on what happened with the 1999 lockout and the expensive lives that NBA players love to live, lies with the owners. However, the players may have discovered a loophole this time around that they didn’t have 12 years ago. Recently, New Jersey Nets point guard Deron Williams threw out the possibility that the locked out players could seek employment overseas in Europe and Asia. While it seemed like an ambitious play for leverage at that time of the announcement, stars such as Phoenix Suns guard Steve Nash and Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard have also expressed interest flying over the Atlantic in the event that the NBA season may not happen. It is a smart play for the players who have been told since the beginning that they have little leverage at all over their employers and would have to start budgeting like, dare I say it, us normal folk to survive a l...