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Monday, November 14, 2011
NBA Lockout: NBA Nuclear Winter Reading List
By Chris Ryan
Abandon all hope ye who enter here. But don't abandon your reading glasses. This is terrible; the labor dispute between the NBA and its players is now
moving out of the negotiating room and into the court room
.
Grantland has been covering the NBA lockout pretty much since the site launched. So we've put together a collection of selected works of the site's lockout coverage. Check out the links below:
Bill Simmons
tries to solve the lockout on his own
.
Bill Simmons
and
Jay Kang
invent a renegade basketball league
, The Oracle.
Bill Simmons
mourns the possibility of a lost NBA season
.
Bill Simmons
gets mad about the possibility of a lost NBA season
.
If you want to find out how we got to this depressing place, read
Jonathan Abrams'
awesome lockout timeline
.
Jonathan Abrams
writes on
what a compressed NBA season would look like
(we're basically praying for this now).
For an illuminating look at Billy Hunter, one of the major characters in this drama, check out
Abrams'
in-depth feature on the man
.
For a more numbers-based look at the lockout, we've had some economists chime in with their takes.
Tyler Cowen
and
Kevin Grier
wrote about the
fiscal realities of the lockout and the nature of the negotiations
.
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