NBA Fans Can Help End the Lockout and Bring Back Basketball #StandUnited
After a seven-hour meeting today at a hotel in New York City, NBA Commissioner David Stern announced the cancellation of the first two weeks of the NBA regular season. Although the sides gathered on two consecutive days, they could not agree on a new framework of a CBA.
What this really says—not just to the greater public, but to the percentage of the populace that actually cares about there being an NBA season—is simply that we may lose a large part of the season. There is no denying it at this point—we are going to miss some games. Gone are the days of wishful thinking where we could just deny the existence of the lockout and pretend the season would start on time. Fans can no longer mechanize themselves to believe that things will work out, because they clearly aren't.
The owners and the players are nowhere close to making a deal about how to split the revenue—revenue that is generated through us, the fans. The fans are the ones that generate the value for the entire league. For without us, there is no league. The fans bring the intrinsic meaning and economic motivation that drives the league to do what it does. The entire system is based on a single linchpin, and that is us.
So. Since we are the ones suffering the most from the NBA lockout, is there anything we can do to even make a difference? Is there any way that we can have our voices heard? While the players and the owners argue over the semantics of a new CBA, is there anything that a single fan can do to help speed up the process? The answer is yes.
I have below, an image—an image that has spread like wildfire through the Internet in the past few hours. Garnering nearly 95,000 Twitpic views in just over six hour's time and hundreds of likes, shares and comments on various Facebook pages. An amazing feat, when you consider the small roots that it began from. I posted this image to my small fanbase of about 850 people, and it has spread to NBA fans all across Facebook and Twitter.
The message is getting out there, we do know that. The one thing that an ordinary fan can do is to simply speak out. Stand together and let it be known that since we are the reason the NBA exists, that we should have some say in the way the negotiations go. As the driving economic force behind the entire league, we do have a voice. We just have to make it obvious and get the message out there.
So here is my message to you: set this image below (or the one linked here: End The Lockout Image) as your profile picture on Facebook or Twitter or even Google+. Let your voice be heard. Spread the message. Tweet the message, set it as your status. We do have the power. We do have a say. The NBA is as much ours as it is the Players or the Owners. The more us fans are aware, and the more we are active, the greater a chance we have to make a difference and finally let our voices be heard. It may not be much, but we definitely have a chance to make a small difference in this oh so confusing situation. Let your voice be heard, and maybe together we can make a difference.
#StandUnited
Here is the link to the twitpic image (Number one trending worldwide): http://twitpic.com/6ylsx6
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