It’s been five months since the first day of the NBA lockout, and the NBA owners and players are still in stalemate for how to distribute the $4 billion revenue. Both parties are unwilling to be the losers between this battle.
Really? What about the people who depend on the NBA for job opportunities like janitors and the people who help set up the arena before games? What about the fans all over the world that support and idolize the players? Are you still talking about losing?
A recent blog post published by Isabel Gillies in the Nytimes, described how her 9 year-old son had just started supporting the NBA before he knew about the lockout, and he would’ve easily fell in love for the game and supported it for the next 70 years, but now if the NBA is out for a year, he might never support it anymore because of the disappointment. Gillies says that there is nothing better than seeing her own son happy. In this case, the REAL losers are Gillies and her son. The NBA doesn’t understand the sense of betrayal people are feeling just because the players and owners can’t come to an agreement of who earns more despite already being millionaires.