Idiots.

Whoever is in charge in this whole NBA lockout drama is an IDIOT. Have they not realized that if professional basketball goes away, they will never get the fan base back? And no one will notice it's gone. Here's why:

NFL

College Football

College Basketball

High School Football Playoffs

ESPN

Life in general

While the NBA athletes and owners are bickering over their cut of the money that comes in, they have failed to realize that there are hundreds of other things going on that former NBA followers will be doing. And now that they've cancelled a quarter of the season, it's all downhill from here.

The NBA won't recover from this. But on the bright side, it means all the former Kentucky players will be around town a lot more...or they'll all have dual citizenship with the country they're collecting teeny, tiny paychecks from.

Life goes on.