Unlike the NFL lockout of 2011, this current NBA lockout isn't getting much attention. But perhaps all of that is about to change.
Until now the NBA lockout has remained somewhat irrelevant to the sports world in general. With the NFL in mid season and the MLB deep in the postseason, basketball has been seemingly brushed aside.
Some of the best players in the game have considered going overseas to play, and some already have; yet how many sports fans are actually clued into that fact or even interested in it?
The sad truth is, not many care. The even sadder truth is, this is actually a huge deal.
The lockout has already destroyed the first two weeks of the NBA regular season, and commissioner David Stern has threatened that the entire 2011-2012 could be in jeopardy if the two sides don't find a resolution.
It's quite a bold statement from a commissioner who has already ruled over one lockout, which ended up with the season starting in February back in the 1998-1999 season.
A very shortened schedule apparently didn't bother him back then, so why would Stern take such an all-or ...
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