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Monday, November 14, 2011

Sports NBA Talks Fall Apart. All is Wrong in the World.

Posted by Ezra Ace Caraeff on Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:58 PM

Crap.
  • Crap.

"We are about to enter the nuclear winter of the NBA"
—David Stern, NBA commissioner/man who says really dramatic things to freak out basketball fans.

The 2011-12 NBA season is (most likely) over. Oh great, another year where Greg Oden didn't do a damn thing. This morning the NBA players rejected the owners’ last ditch (and totally unfair) labor offer, and have decided to dissolve their union and file an antitrust suit against the league itself. This decision means that the entire 2011-12 season is likely be axed. Okay, fine, there is still a small chance that they can talk it out and learn to love again (David Stern and Derek Fisher trust falls!), but sadly it's looking more and more likely that today is the day the season died.

Yes, we all know the world is filled with other real issues—all those brave people downtown protesting the Kardashian divorce (What? I've been off this blog for awhile, I'm out of the loop.)—but the prospect of losing an entire basketball season is a pretty devastating. There are numerous reported local economic benefits to the franchise, and countless others (arena employees, front office staff, and people stupid enough to leave comfy day jobs and open a bar that would broadcast games on television) that will be affected as well. And frankly, the Blazers offer a nice respite from the monochromatic misery of yet another Portland winter. I don't know what to do without them.

On the positive note, the Blazers finished the season undefeated with no major injuries. So there's that.

 

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1
There are a couple up-sides to this.
Hopefully I won't have to see James face again till next season, and maybe, just maybe Oden will finally be 100% by that time.
(a guy can dream, right?)
Posted by frankieb on November 14, 2011 at 1:03 PM · Report
2
Hey, if these bitches don't want to earn a ton of money to play a game, then screw em. Next story.
Posted by Demondog on November 14, 2011 at 1:10 PM · Report
3
On another positive note, my husband switched us to Direct TV which will save us an estimated $800 this year. I am now less concerned with losing Comcast Sportsnet.
Posted by Tonya on November 14, 2011 at 1:23 PM · Report
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Ezra, I propose you market your bar to a far better demographic: drunks! Yes indeed! A good drunk can keep a bar in the black even through the darkest of winters. Just don't let them keep a huge bar tab all at once and you're set!
Posted by Fruit Cup on November 14, 2011 at 1:48 PM · Report
5
What will Ezra turn to for live blogging? I say he live blogs ultimate frisbee tournaments.
Posted by Rusty! on November 14, 2011 at 2:06 PM · Report
6
This is some BS.
Posted by Chester Copperpot on November 14, 2011 at 3:41 PM · Report
7
Buncha rich asshole can't play basketball for some reason? The world is weird.
Posted by Marq on November 14, 2011 at 4:18 PM · Report
8
I propose Ezra host weekly (nay, nightly?) interpretive dance reenactments of classic Blazer moments from the past at the OG.

I humbly submit my services for I've been perfecting both my Sheed-throws-towel-at-Sabonis and Sheed-accosts-Donaghy-in-tunnel.
Posted by TSW on November 14, 2011 at 7:20 PM · Report
9
You think that's bad, the Cricket World Test Championship has been postponed. Until 2017.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-15/i…
Posted by Todd Mecklem on November 14, 2011 at 8:14 PM · Report
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Substitute Courtney for Ezra and let her live-blog the roller derby events.
Posted by ujfoyt on November 14, 2011 at 10:52 PM · Report

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