The NBA Lockout/Strike

[dgs49]

In the deep, dark past, one might refer to a "Mexican Standoff," as a battle in which both sides lost.

The NBA dispute is one in which one can fervently hope for (and actually realize) a Mexican Standoff.

The odious owners and greedy players cannot decide how best to slice up the ridiculously generous pie of league basketball revenues.

Although basketball is a wonderful game, I can't imagine why people pay the prices they do to sit through 48 minutes of this spectacle. Most of the season is virtually meaningless, as every team with even a rumor of a winning record makes the playoffs. The best teams are merely taking the regular season as the time to get in position for a playoff run - which is the REAL NBA season.

The highly-paid hot dogs are a stark contrast to 99% of the audience, which is invariably lilly-white. Their ubiquitous tattoos and ridiculous hairstyles make them look oddly like the poor, misguided street urchins who emulate them, and the real inspirers in our state prison systems.

Ironically, a season reduced to a third of its current length would be just as likely to distill the leagues down to the best teams, and the NBA champion would not be compromised in any way by virtue of a shortened season.

A large percentage of America couldn't care less about the work stoppage, as we have no local team to root for and don't identify with any players in any event. Their TV ratings would be the envy of PBS, but probably no one else. Most nights, I'd just as soon watch HSN - which I've never actually seen.

[liberty]

Think of it a world without basketball. One can only hope that such a nuisance will disappear. Shame on you 49 for getting my hopes. All it is good for is to delaying sixty minutes. If I had to I would rather watch Soccer at least it is played outside.

[rubato]

I think each of the big-money sports should be shut down for a year, or three, by a strike. Sports are unimportant trivia and should be viewed as such.



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rubato

[BoSoxGal]

Could. Not. Care. Less.

[liberty]

Could. Not. Care. Less.

Except when you have to wait an hour to watch Sixty Minute. I have an idea instead of having the news magazine delayed by the game let the knuckle draggers wait. I suspect there is a greater chance of something important being seen on Sixty Minute than the other way around.

[Long Run]

Shoot. Self. Foot.

U.S. fans miss only one sport when it is not on -- football. Used to miss baseball a bit, but that has faded.

[Jarlaxle]

Think of it a world without basketball. One can only hope that such a nuisance will disappear. Shame on you 49 for getting my hopes. All it is good for is to delaying sixty minutes. If I had to I would rather watch Soccer at least it is played outside.

I'm just as happy now that NBA talk is not polluting the sports talk radio I listen to...I am a rabid Red Sox fan & a casual Pats fan...no interest in hockey, but two outta three is OK.