Bullets Forever, a Washington Wizards community

It seems that for the last several weeks both sides have been talking, only to break up at the end with "no more talks scheduled." Now, it looks like they are about to meet again, I think that we expected this anyway, but this time, it remains to be seen what the NBA will do. Will the NBA just eat all the losses from no games in the first month or will they pass on some of these costs "on the players' backs?"

The New York Times released an article last Friday that the NBA has laid off 114 people, or 11% of its corporate office staff in a cost cutting measure to save $50 million. According to the article, 275 positions have been eliminated since 2008 which includes the transition of NBA TV to Turner Broadcasting. Though the league claims that this initiative had nothing to do with the lockout directly, it's hard to say that the lockout didn't have any indirect effect at least.

This is a bad sign. Jamison is one of the few active NBA players who remembers the last lockout. This leads me to believe that we could be in for the long haul.