Everyone hates the NBA lockout, but no one seems to care about the gory details.
It's understandable.
Who wants to sit around talking about hard caps and revenue sharing and 53-47 splits when sports are supposed to be fun?
So rather than getting into the minutiae, we pinpointed which owners, players, and NBA insiders are doing the most (and least) to bring us basketball again.
VILLAIN: Paul Allen, Portland Trail Blazers owner
This was the Yahoo! headline from last week, "Blazers’ Allen sets fire to labor talks."
That's not good.
There's also this sentence from Adrian Wojnarowski: "Nevertheless, Portland Trail Blazers billionaire Paul Allen stepped out of the shadows, declared himself as the hardest line of the hardliners and played the part of the improbable boogeyman in these dysfunctional labor talks."
HERO: Mark Cuban, Dallas Mavericks owner
NBA labor leader Billy Hunter said that Cuban came up with a "game changer" that would totally change the league's salary structure.
NBA brass came out and basically said, "No no no, it was the PLAYERS who came up with that wacky plan that most of our owners hate."
But the Cubes seems to be one of the lone owners who is thinking outside the box to get a deal done.
VILLAIN: Owners who know what the hell they're doing
It's been sad that many owners treat sports franchises like toys.
But now, there's a new crop of owners who are treating their teams like businesses and not compromising for the sake of game.
"New School owners are less inclined to listen to Stern than the Old Guard owners who bought their franchises on the cheap," ESPN reported this month.
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