The Breeze Volume 1 #13 the NBA Lockout my proposed soulutions

I had to laugh the other day when my friend Blue Magic sent me an e-mail asking me to solve the NBA Lockout. How the NBA solves the problem is going to solve this problem of it,s own making. Currently  the  revenue split is 57-43 as a percentage in favor of the Players per the agreement signed in 2005. The owners claim 22-30 teams are losing revenue. Now Blue Magic would be part of the Redhawk Party With Icon and Former Seattle U star Elgin Baylor as the standard bearer.. In my case I would be more along the Lines of the Keep the Logo Party Cut to shot of Jerry West. In the USA the economy is terrible with 9.2 percent unemplyment rate. Thjings have not been this bad since Magic Johnson was a rookie in 1979. I propose that the NBA do as the NFL has done with revenue sharing whereby weaker small market teams would get a cut of 2-4 percent of the 4.5 Billion  dollars in reported revenue. Next institute a hard salary cap with each team required to set aside a percentage of revenue as a rainy day fund. It might be wise to lower ticket prices so that the average fan can actually go to the games. The game is not as diverse as it needs to be the proportion of high end fans are well funded corporate types who are well funded and Caucasion. They are coming to watch inner city kids who are non-white  who have fought to get out of environments that are not conducive to to staying alive much less being sucessful on the court. The politics of this  get tricky here. Another proposed solution is to fire David Stern. He says he wants to expand the game but the constituents he represents do not represent the average fan. Sonics leave Seattle and so forth. Hire a non-white commissioner who actually likes the fans and wants to preserve the game. To my friend Blue Magic I think we can both agree that we can overcome the great political and social divide and preserve the game despite our diffrences. I think our U.S political leaders need to take a page out of the Redhawk Party and the Keep the logo platform and preserve the game as welll. Mark Alan Janisch  WWS Contact @wideworlof Spor  on twitter  Maj 14@live.com Comming up Seahawks the NFL free agent frenzy