Well they done it!
Today is a departure from my normal Monday, Wednesday and Friday schedule.  I'm writing because I'm mad!  I'm mad, after numerous meetings to all hours of the afternoon and evening NBA owners and players were unable to reach an agreement.

I wrote back in July it was my intent to not focus on the lockout, I hoped (as did many fans) the NBA would get it's act together.  It is extremely difficult to sympathize with "tall millionaires fighting short billionaires" as Tony Kornheiser ESPN once stated.  The economic condition of the nation and world says "how can you dare argue over money when the vast majority of you will earn 20 or 50 times the amount of money of an average fan.

If you read yesterday I located some facts that clearly pointed out this is a lose-lose situation.  Nobody wins, fans will abandon the sport in droves.  At the time the NFL was in negotiations I informed all within earshot "they will reach an agreement."  Was I stating there was less greed involved, certainly not but I thought all along the NFL wanted to resolve it's labor issue.  Although I never expressed it from the beginning I never had a good feeling about the NBA's desire to settle.  

I'm borrowing a line from David Aldridge TNT analyst.  "With the first two weeks of the season cancelled it will become more and more difficult to reach a settlement.  Players and owners will have lost money and it needs to be made up."  Nobody ever wants to lose money, if you do you want to earn it back.  At this point no meetings are scheduled and the figure I saw indicated the first two weeks would be a total of 100 games cancelled.  There was a time period in the NBA when players made little money by comparasion with today's players.  Today's NBA player retiring at 35 or 36 earns enough money (with proper investments) to live comfortable the rest of their life.  

Words eye view was intended to provide insight from a fans perspective of the game.  The intent was to cover the NBA, college, high school and AAU basketball.  In addition any basketball stories I locate I thought of interest to you the reader.  With no NBA games scheduled is it worth your time and mine to continue writing leaving the NBA out?  Wednesday is a normal date, I see how I feel this evening and tomorrow morning.