If the NBA contracts, which team/city will be forced to go?

[HOT ROD]

that's true, and that is what I was thinking. ....

[Laramie]

It is getting down to contract negotiations.

It's an old negotiations' plot: what the owner's call 'Fat Ducking' the employees.

The owners will throw the player's union a bone and a finger at the same time.

When you want to distract the union from the table, bring up contraction (fewer teams translates into fewer players).

The owners will come out ahead and the union will leave the table feeling as though they compromised by fighting off contraction and giving in to lower salaries.

In the end, the fans lose!