Talk:1998–99 NBA season

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Vandalism

You need to stop sending messages here or to IP's because nobody reads them, this will be taken down again, but it goes to show that so called administrators here do not know anything about sports!

The introduction

I have slightly re-worded the introduction, hopefully it is OK. I have kept the 5th feb date, per http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1208/is_3_223/ai_53630899 and described the agreement reached as a "Collective Bargaining Agreement was reaches between the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association", per http://members.cox.net/lmcoon/salarycap.htm#6, which also mentions the lockout itself. I have removed "Some teams did not even play each other at all and many played each other only once." and "Before the season commenced there were 2 exhibition games; one home & one on the road." since I havn't found any sources for those claims - I have no objection to such claims if they are sourced. Also, I've included some excessive cuteness on this talk page, because, well, everyone likes kittens, don't they? -- AJR | Talk 02:27, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The kitten did it for me. Thanks for mediating. Dknights411 02:32, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A quick note: my mention of pov in this edit summary was due to tiredness, {{disputed}} would be fine on the version I reverted away from. (Although we may as well just omit those two sentences until they are sourced, IMO.) -- AJR | Talk 03:29, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reply

This knight guy has been vandalising this site, now he is kitten to cover up for his mistakes, first he took february away, then he took June 25th, then he agreed they are ok...NOW 2 game EXHIBITION INFORMATION IS MISSING... IT WAS EVER THUS... 

 I STRONGLY SUGGEST YOU PUT IT LIKE IT WAS, then again I doubt many right things could be found on wiki anyways...

Resolving the problem

We need to find a resolution to the dispute about this article, so that it can be unprotected. I have already said, and will say again, that I know very little about what happened during the 98-99 NBA season (I came across a revert war in Recent Changes and tried to calm things down.) The issue at hand is that an anonymous editor (then 64.107.220.179, I assume the various other IP addresses that have edited this talk page are the same person) was adding content to the introduction that Dknights411 saw as being unverified. Nased on the research I did at the time (see above), I wrote what is currently the introduction.[1] The content from 64.107's version (and I mean in general terms, not specific wording) that I did not include is these two sentences:

  1. "Some teams did not even play each other at all and many played each other only once."
  2. "Before the season commenced there were 2 exhibition games; one home & one on the road."

I did not include these assertions since I did not find any external sources to support them. If reliable sources for these claims can be provided, then IMO there would be no dispute here (although the second one is rather unclear - who played those exhibition games?) To the anonymous editor: could you please provide some sources for your claims, rather than editors acting in good faith of vandalism. -- AJR | Talk 00:27, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

For that second sentence, I think it's supposed to be "each team played two exhibition games". However, I can't find information on LAST year's pre-season, much less those from this season. I peronally think that if it's too hard and too strenuous to verify the info, then it is better to leave it out of the article. But that's just my opinion. Dknights411 00:58, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reply

It only shows your ignorance, and finally here are some links which proove my point AND NO, THEY ARE NOT ONLY ABOUT MAVERICKS, like you claimed first time when I said February 5th was the start of the season not only for the lakers... http://www.nationwide.net/~patricia/mavs/mavs-stats/98-99/mavs-misc98-99.html http://www.nbpa.com/history.php

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