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Having watched the lockout with interest and frustration as I want to see trades happen and certainly don’t want the season to be shortened or lost, the following things struck me:-

1. Would a reduced season merely be the regular season with the play offs as normal or would maybe the first two play off rounds be shortened to say 5 games to enable some regular season games to be saved.

The big clubs would surely want to keep the full play off schedule as they make so much money from this but lottery teams might be glad of a couple of extra games to get as close to 82 games as possible to help with revenue.

2. Why is the NBA firmly on the owners side, as the people who run the league surely they should mediate between players and team owners to try to save the season.

In most other sports the league/governing body tends to be the rule maker and is there to look after the games best interests, the NBA seems firmly on the owners side but I have not seen how a lockout would affect the league financially yet.

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