NBA trying to get richer.

The NBA is in it's 121st day of the lockout, and it doesn't look like it's going to end in time to start the season on time. The entire preseason was canceled and now the first two weeks of the regular season has been canceled. An estimated $130 million dollars in basketball related revenue has been lost. We as fans have been led to believe that this is about the NBA vs. the NBAPA. The players vs. the owners. When in all actuality it's more about the rich wanting to get richer, and also the rich wanting to have their cake and eat it too. Under the previous collective bargaining agreement, the players were getting 57% and the owners were getting 43%. Now the owners want a 50/50 split. Lets put that into perspective. The owners now want to take back over 6 billion dollars of the players share. As if they can suit up and put on the kinda show we are so used to seeing. Now lets view this from a reverse angle. Thats like the owner of Taco Bell getting less money than the employees. The players have been spoiled with all these lucrative contracts. Making 5 to 20 million dollars per year, and they aren't willing to give up a dime. So who do we as fans blame? The owners, the players, or both. Well we shouldn't blame either of them. What the media is not telling us, is that the NBA is an entity that is ran by a group of rich republicans who get a nice slice of the pie just for the logo. So the NBA starts a money fued between the owners and the players so that they get a bigger slice of the pie. It's really that simple. If the tax payers, and the fans were the real owners and operators of the league then we wouldn't have all this nonsense. Afterall we are the ones paying these salaries. Hopefully we will have at least half of the season. If not then we will be the only losers. The players and owners are already rich. But they will still continue to take the taxpayers money. That will never end.