If NBA season goes, so may the league's fans

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    NBA Commissioner David Stern keeps waiting for this monumental insurrection from NBA players furious over their leadership. Stern figured the players, desperate over losing paychecks and not meeting payments on their luxury vehicles, would have bowed down to the owners by now and proclaimed their sincere thanks for giving them anything while not detonating the entire season.

    But he didn't count on Boston's Paul Pierce pulling a Norma Rae, declaring militant solidarity despite the fact his graying Celtics might lose their last shot at contending for a title. Stern didn't count on the divide in his own constituency, between hard-line and let's-get-this-damn-season-started owners, who are further apart at the moment than the players have ever been in this labor war.

    Read more: http://www.indystar.com/article/201...ut--Season-on-the-brink?source=nletter-sports
     

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