NBA drama

Much like two political parties squabbling over something I don't care about, NBA owners--until very recently--had been locked in a stalemate with players over a new collective bargaining agreement which sought to decrease super-inflated salaries of star players and take some of the financial strain off of NBA owners.

I'm not a very big NBA fan, so I have not been feeling the pain of a lockout that led to the cancellation of more than a quarter of the NBA season. Instead I got a considerable amount of entertainment following the lockout in the news and on the radio, which covered the event particularly well.

Throughout the lockout which began almost immediately after the end of the last season back in June, there have been intermittent updates on the progress of the lockout. And as the lockout wore on, I would hear every other day of how talks between players and owners were resuming, only to break down days later.

I would have fun hearing and reading quotes from players and owners unwilling to budge and refusing to make certain concessions; much the same as I do when congress is having a particularly heated session (again probably over something I don't care about).

I am glad now that the lockout is over, both for the franchises that had a lot to lose in the event of a lost season, and for the NBA fans. The news' analysis of the new CBA, thinks that the NBA players are the losers in the new agreement, and they're right. The new luxury tax will make it harder for teams to go over the salary cap and thus keep player salaries down. But I think the group that lost the most was the fans who missed a seeing their favorite basketball teams because of a bunch millionaires quibbling over a few dollars.