NBA Trade Rumors: Lockout Halts Momentous NBA Season

NBA Trade Rumors Die a Slow Lockout Death 

The vitality and promise that was born from the past NBA season is about to perish from an NBA lockout, one that will force us to forget all the wonderful moments. 

Please take a moment to savor, marinate and ponder. A day from now, you will be too disgusted from the legal talk that you will scarcely remember how to spell the name Nene, yet remember who he is. 

The NBA is about lockout its players. At 12:01 Friday morning, the exciting carriage of NBA highlights we have been riding will be turned into a pumpkin of doldrums and uncertainty. 

I can only manage a shrug and long sigh knowing that one of the best NBA seasons in recent memory will be topped off with a fat egg instead of a cherry. 

The Miami Heat and their rock star tour through infamy will soon be erased by banter of a new CBA. The time spent watching marquee teams age a decade in a singe season will be wiped clear by the words, hard cap.

The Dallas Mavericks, proof that team spirit can still reign supreme, will now take a backseat to legalese and profit margins. 

The New York Knicks finally found their savior in a blockbuster trade, but all I can hear now is financial proposals and bargaining tables.

We saw the Spurs rise and fall, the Nets grab a star, double-double months from Kevin Love and a new MVP to reign supreme. In the end, it will all vanish from the collective consciousness. 

It is hard to recall just how a Blake Griffin dunk made you feel when guys like Billy Hunter hog the spotlight. It is a new day in the NBA, one without highlights or fast breaks, merely talks and discussions. 

Take a quick look around; the tables are about to get wiped clean. On the other side, we will have a brand new NBA. The salary structure will be different, and the teams will have to alter their schemes. 

Whatever the Association becomes, it will be a far bleaker place than the one we saw last season. There will be some catching up to do with fans that leave hallowed arenas out of disgust.

If we have learned anything from past work stoppages, it is that the sport suffers once play resumes. The NBA lockout looks to be headed in that direction, both sides far from a compromise.

It is going to be a long, cold summer for NBA fans, with nothing to do but hope, and nothing to watch but time.  

Try to remember the good times from last season, because soon they will be a thing of the past. It is fitting that we just witnessed such a remarkable season. It is going to have to keep us for quite some time.