4 great ways to solve the...oh fuck it. I don't give a shit, just figure it out.

   Hey! Where's your 'ways to fix the lockout' post? Gimme a bunch of numbers and contract clauses and blablabla about revenue sharing and hard cap!!!

No offense...but the only thing I'm hard capped for is the end of the god damn lockout. I could give a shit about how they fix it, because from my point of view, both sides are just greedy. Are the players more important, or are the owners more important? List a thousand reasons for each, and i promise you they are all relative. Relative as in, you can see each issue either way. The players are way more likable cause we don't see Clay Bennett working a Killer crossover on Jerry Buss then dishing behind the back to Mark Cuban who, in turn, throws it down for an and one over James Dolan.

   Everything about the lockout is horrible. A feeling of a lost season is already starting to settle in. The players are on one side, in a trench covered in barbwire and surrounded by landmines and machine guns and Rick Ross music (term used loosely) while the owners are on the other side in a huge fortified tower covered by armed guards, behind a moat filled with class disparity. All the beautiful (and not so beautiful) pre-season NBA coverage has been replaced by sportscasters forced to wonder aloud about solutions to the dumbest self-made crisis since....the NFL lockout...or...the last NBA lockout. Sportscasters are much better suited for screaming 'WHAT!' and 'MONEY!' at dunks then they are to talk about market shares, player salaries and perceived owner financial loss. I didn't care about it at first, then i was mad, now I'm just depressed. Probably because i thought it wouldn't happen for real.

  What's the solution? What fan really cares, i just want it over with. Maybe that's simplistic, and i come across as an idiot who can't understand the finer points of dollars and cents. If that's the case, please, fire up a huge text-block of an argument on why i should i care more. Please be sure to include a lot of numbers, and considerable math equations (please show your work...no calculators) as well as pie charts, bar graphs and power point presentations. I'll be glad to read it all whenever one single fan thinks the NBA lockout is worthwhile in any respect and not just born of greed and a complete uncaring nature towards the real cash pipeline, the fan.