One of the major things I feel like the players/owners have forgotten about is how this basketball related income (BRI) is actually generated. The simplest way to put it is "NO FANS, NO MONEY". That's right, the FANS are the ones who allow you to succeed as an organization. WE love the game, WE buy tickets, WE wear your jerseys, and WE support you even though we don't even know you personally. But where is the love for the fans? Can you imagine what financial injury we would cause if we decide to decrease spending throughout the season or not go to games? Seems like that BRI number might be much weaker than expected.
If I had any power over the fans, I would do whatever I could to enforce a reduction in spending. If the owners and players, regardless of who is more wrong in the situation (OWNERS), don't have enough decency to think of the fans during this time, then why should we continue to make them rich? While they bicker about how to divide billions of dollars, we're sitting here waiting to dish out our hard earned money (and lots of it) to see the sport we love.
What are we getting in return? NBA TV Old School Classics, player-organized exhibition games, and more boring, worthless article about how a deal has NOT been made.
There's another deadline tomorrow before we say goodbye to a full season. It's a good thing I have NBA2K12, Modern Warfare 3, and college basketball to entertain me for a while. I'm not confident anything positive will happen but I guess we'll see.
Stressed much? Haha
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