CHRIS KNEPLEY

The NBA lockout has now resulted in the cancellation of professional basketball games until at least December 15^th and with the players now filing antitrust lawsuits against the owners, it seems that the NBA season is in real jeopardy of not taking place at all.

Of course, missing an entire season would not only be financially devastating to the league and the players, but what about the people that try to make ends meet selling “Luck Febron” t-shirts in Cleveland, or the people that make “Luck Febron” bumper stickers in Chicago? Same goes for the guy that sells “Luck Febron” book bags in New York City.

Now, before everyone starts jumping on the same, tired, old argument that these are “billionaires and millionaires arguing over how to split billions of dollars,” I think it’s time we really stop and take a look at who the REAL victims are of the NBA lockout are.

There’s no question that the actual victims of the NBA lockout are the children who look up to, and view the NBA players as heroes. The NBA has taught the children of today so much and it would be a shame to cut that learning curb by an entire season.

How else could kids learn that it’s ok to cheat on your girlfriend as long as you spend massive amounts of money to buy her jewelry, if not for Kobe Bryant.

How else will the youth of today learn the best way to date, and then marry a transvestite reality star if not for Lamar Odom?

How will today’s children figure out how to run away from home to join a traveling AAU team in order to look for an elusive “championship” if not for LeBron James?

The NBA has taught us so much over the years. Hell, where do you think Rick Pitino learned to pay a woman to get an abortion after he knocked her up?

It would be a shame to deprive society from all of the lessons it could be learning if we were to miss an entire NBA season, so for that I ask, I beg you Commissioner Stern, please, for the good of the children of America, let there be basketball this season.

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