Nba Lockout?

Can someone explain this to me.

I know that the league is going to close for a while.


But what I want to know is

What is the arguement?

Why is a solution so hard

*sigh*

okay.... The players want to keep their guaranteed contracts, they want to be able to sign for longer years [like 7 year contracts], they want to keep the soft cap so they can sign for big deals with the team they're on, or if they're traded they can still keep their big contracts.

The owners want less years on contracts [like 4-5 years], the want less money guaranteed on contracts [instead of your whole contract being guaranteed, only a portion of it is] and they want a hard cap.

Owners claim that 22/30 teams lost money.

An average NBA player makes 5.8 million a year. That's more than any other profession in the world.

players wanna continue that, obviously... but owners can't afford it.

And a solution is so hard because...

Players want their money
Owners want players to take less money
Players don't want to take less money

Yup, looking forward to watching more NHL this winter.