Chris Sheridan, one of ESPN's lead basketball voices for the last six years, has left the mothership and started his own site. And as is appropriate when launching a new endeavor, he's doing so with a healthy dose of optimism.
The first post on his new SheridanHoops.com site explains that the NBA and NBPA aren't as far apart on the most crucial issue - how league revenue will be split - as either side has been suggesting. To summarize... the numbers that the union has been throwing around, suggesting the sides are about $8 billion apart, are based on the owners' CBA proposal, which would have an active life of ten years.
But it's far more likely that the term in the next deal will be six years - and in that span, the sides are just under $3 billion apart.
("Just $3 billion." I'm starting to think that this summer's national debt crisis has rendered us unable to comprehend the sheer size of any number, so long as there's a dollar sign in front. But I digress.)
That's a lot of scratch, but it isn't insurmountable. In fact, Sheridan thinks the sides are close enough that they'll be able to settle things and still start the regular season on time.
The sides are expected to resume negotiations on Wednesday.
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