NBA lockout puts Mavs’ coronation on hold

The Dallas Mavericks jersey china should have received their championship rings three weeks ago in a ceremony on the opening night of the 2011-12 NBA season. They didn’t, of course. The league’s ongoing lockout has indefinitely postponed their coronation, and the players can’t be sure when they’ll get their prize for winning last season’s title.

“For me, personally, I don’t think there will be a season,” Mavericks guard DeShawn Stevenson(notes) said recently at Drew Gooden’s(notes) Make-A-Wish charity game. “Right now there is just a lot of bad blood and [the owners] keep putting offers out that we’re rejecting. So we’re not going anywhere.”

Stevenson thinks the owners have been slow to recognize how much the players have already conceded in negotiations, but he also points blame at wholesale NBA jerseys someone else: Billy Hunter, executive director of the players’ former union.

“I felt like we should have decertified in July,” Stevenson said. “I feel like Billy Hunter is doing a horrible job because basically now [the owners] know our hand. The media knows our hand. The owners know our hand.”

Jason Terry(notes), the Mavs’ representative for the Players Association, was in New York on Nov. 14 when the union decided to disband. He said the players had “no choice” but to turn down the NBA’s latest offer and that Mavs All-Star forward Dirk Nowitzki(notes) supported the decision.

“A lot of players were misinformed from watching [television],” Terry said. “But once we gave them the information and what it was about, they knew that wasn’t a fair deal for us.”

Unlike Stevenson, Terry remains optimistic there will still be a cheap NBA jerseys 2011-12 season. And that the Mavs will eventually receive their championship rings