NBA Lockout Conforms to 2011's Year of Sports

Lockout 3.0

NFL. Congress. NBA. It appears that this is the year of stalemates as the negotiations between the NBA and NBPA have come to a halt.

The parties have not scheduled any further bargaining sessions at this point and there appears to be no end to the lockout in sight. With training camps set to begin on October 3rd, it would not be out of the question for the camps to be cancelled. As common with avalanches and life in general, one thing often leads to another. As soon as the training camps are cancelled, don't be surprised when one side or the other broaches the subject of cancelling the entire regular season.

Hot topics for the negotiations include the decertification of the players' union. If the union is decertified, the players would be able to file antitrust lawsuits against the league; however, other results of such an action remain uncertain.

Cancellation, another hot button issue, would result in... no season. I seriously don't want it to come to that. Do you? What are your thoughts?