The N.B.A.'s proposal calls for an 8 percent cut in the first year, but it virtually freezes player salaries for the next six years, for a total reduction of $7.6 billion in player salaries, according to the union.
The club very nearly disappeared entirely in 2011, after debts of around £17m led to administrators being appointed, their bank account frozen and players sold off for a fraction of their value.
Put it this way: For the past year, mentioning the name "Ted Williams" conjured up an image of a (hopefully) former addict holding a cardboard sign on the side of the road, not one of the greatest (cryogenically frozen) baseball players that ever lived.
It looked kind of like an NBA coach calling a timeout to freeze a player about to shoot free throws.
Within hours of the game's release on October 19, 2010, players of Fallout: New Vegas began reporting a variety of technical issues (saved games becoming corrupted, the game freezing, players becoming stuck within the terrain, and random NPCs appearing behind the player, initiating combat out of context).
In the Dream's case, it welcomed no starters from established teams, which froze six players each in the expansion draft in 2008.
This fast-paced, five-on-five gridiron version of the game lets players freeze out an opposing player, tweak skill levels, add extra linemen and more.
Van Gaal's authoritarian rule has already seen numerous players frozen out and sold on after failing to fall in line.
People kept looking reflexively at the screen, where the horn player was frozen mid-stride, as if to see what it was Lievsay had done to that trumpet.
They could have gone even further -- using this technique in other scenes to let the coach describe what they did wrong and how to counter it, for example, while the other player is frozen in time or just to get more fully into a boxer's head.
