It's called economic reality and right now it seems a couple of money grubbing agents telling them to wait it out because someone will pay them. I've said it elsewhere before - I don't see either player as worth that kind of money. They want long term contracts for "safety", but don't like it when someone passes them on the salary ranking. I'd say mgmt is going through risk assessment with their finance folks and deciding the value for their return on investment isn't worth it. There's only so much money it TV contracts, gate, ad revenue, stadium concessions, tax breaks, etc. that the market can bear. No one is in it to lose money especially not 'billionaire owners' who have either built it up or inherited it.