The NBA players and owners both sat down for more than 30 hours of negotiations this week with a federal mediator. Sadly, according to the latest report, there appears to be no end in sight to this lockout.
Both sides walked away from negotiations last night, and as has been the case throughout this ugly ordeal, they are both blaming each other.
I could go on and on about how David Stern said this. Or I could talk about what Dwayne Wade said. or Andrew Bogut said . I could go into great detail about how a bunch of millionaires and billionaires are arguing over how to divide over four billion dollars in revenue a year.
I could even talk about how in this economy, where so many Americans are struggling to make ends meet, the NBA Lockout is costing ticket vendors and maintenance people their jobs. I could talk about how petty this makes the players look. I could talk about how greedy it makes the owners look.
I am not here to talk about that today. You can go somewhere else to read that.
To quote Kid Rock, this is "for the 40 hour overtime workin' man, and t ...
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