I don't want to spend too much time talking about the NBA as I am totally disgusted by this lockout. More than anything this lockout is a slap in the face to the fans. The fans who stuck around during the NBA's drug era (1970-1981), the over expanded not that entertaining era (1990-1999), the 1999 lockout, the thug era (see Brawl in the palace) all the way up until last season which happened to be the most entertaining NBA season of my life and just like that it is gone and for what a couple of $100 million between billionaires and millionaires, gross! I am on the side of owners; who do the players think they are. At the end of the day the owner is the guy who has to sign the paycheck.

BRI basketball related revenue; the players under the old system were guaranteed 57%. That is a ridiculous amount because that is based on just pure revenue, no expenses. So the owners had 43% to promote the team, pay other worker’s salaries, keep the lights on, the water running, etc. At 43% I can totally see how the NBA lost $370 million. The players have questioned the $370 million loss saying expenses like depreciation and amortization aren’t real expenses. Here is a perfect example, Jerry Jones owner of the Dallas Cowboys spent like a $1 billion dollars to build their new stadium generally accepted accounting principles doesn’t allow you to take that entire expense in the one year Jones has to expense it over the next 39 years (1,000,000,000/39 = 25,641,025.64). So it is absurd for Billy Hunter and the players union to think this is some sort of funny accounting, this is what every company in America practices.

I have heard a number rumors regarding the infamous October 4th meeting, in which Kevin Garnett who has no college degree, who went straight to the NBA because his SAT scores were so poor, decided he should be at the forefront of the negotiations. For some strange reason his approach of yelling, screaming and keeping it gangsta didn’t go over so well with a room full of billionaires. KG is a moron and the Players Union is weak if something like this was allowed to happen.

Derek Fisher during one of his press conferences said that people’s livelihoods were at stake. To piggyback off of Herman Cain, if you are an NBA player and you are broke at the end of your career you have nobody to blame but yourself. The average NBA player makes $92,000 a week. $92,000 a week some people won’t make that in three years like what are these guys complaining about.

When I was an intern in 1999, the year of last lockout, I remember the regular staff people being so happy because they got raises like a yearly 21%, a bad raise was like 15% nowadays a good raise is 3% a bad raise is no raise. Hey NBA players the housing market crashed, 14 million Americans are unemployed, there is no growth, banks a barely staying afloat, European economic system is on the verge of collapse what exactly are you not understanding. The players should have taken the first deal offered by the owners but their own ignorance will be there downfall. The players want to talk about concessions why don’t they talk to some of the Occupy protesters, see what kind of concessions they have had to make over the last few years like their job, home, dignity, sense of self-worth.