During class on September 13, the question was asked "why is it important to study the past?" With the rise of sport as a big business, it has become more and more common for professional leagues to learn from each other's successes and failures in order to create a better product overall. Same can be said for the recent NBA Lockout.
This battle occurring between NBA owners and NBA Players Union is eerly familiar to the same confrontation that occurred over this past summer between the NFL and NFL Players' Union. The difference is that while the NFL knew they had to get a deal done in order to salvage the season, it seems that the NBA is quite intent on sacrificing the entire season in order to force the players hands in the negotiations. Most fans and sport columnists feel that the NBA should learn from the NFL labor dispute in order to salvage the season, however owners are more focused on changing the entire "system" of the National Basketball Association.
Coakley gives a potential reasoning behind the NBA's madness as he states many people in recent history have ignored what others say is practical or realistic and pursued choices based on idealistic notions of what sports could be ( Coakley p. 87). The owners aren't focused on normal proceedings and instead want to create something that makes the National Basketball Association even better then what it could be. But is it really necessary to sacrifice a whole season just to prove a point?
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