I’m a huge sports fan - pretty much anything, and I love college hoops - but the NBA has been mostly terrible for years. The regular season is long and pointless, and the economic structure of the league is ridiculous. How can you have a draft so screwed up that teams are willing to trade 1st round draft picks for cash? Or to trade 1st round picks straight up for 2nd round picks?
So I will agree with others above me who would have voted for the “Hell No!” option.
The NBA is the only sport I watch… but I don’t miss it that much. Go figure. It’s not because of the product: the NBA product has been OUTSTANDING the last few years – it’s like they finally got it right. For those that say the NBA has lousy the last [X-amount] of years haven’t been watching much lately… maybe? I dare say the brand of play has NEVER been better (yes, that includes the Golden Era of the mid-80’s – nobody played defense and there were a LOT of bad teams).
Maybe it’s because I’m a Lakers fan and Phil Jackson-coached Laker teams had a history of sleepwalking through the regular season, or maybe I can sense the Lakers’ fall from power, but I’ve been okay with the lockout.
That said, I have been catching some NBA Hardwood Classics on the NBA Channel and they have been all sorts of awesome.
Not in the slightest.
Once upon a time (i.e., from around 1980 through around 2000), I followed the NBA fairly seriously; when I was in high school and college, I followed the Bucks, who were at least interesting in the Marques Johnson / Bob Lanier / Sidney Moncrief era. Then, I moved to Chicago in time to see Michael Jordan’s dominance. After Jordan left the Bulls (and the Bucks were terrible by then), I stopped caring.
I vaguely follow college basketball now, but that’s mostly because my alma mater (Wisconsin) is pretty good now.
My reaction too.
I picked sort of. The Lakers aren’t scheduled to come to Chicago until March, so I hope the strike gets settled before then so I can see them.
If the strike doesn’t get settled extremely soon there won’t be any season at all, it is already very unlikely.
I’m OK right now because the NFL is still going. After the Super Bowl, I think the DT’s will start to set in. I haven’t cared about baseball since the mid 90’s, no particular reason just boring.
Not missing it at all - I don’t care for NBA. I can’t really be bothered to watch a sport that doesn’t enforce its own damn rules.
I’ll care a little after the Super Bowl but only because the Bulls are so good and have an exciting player in Rose. If they were mediocre I couldn’t care less. Plus with the Blackhawks playing like they are on a mission I’ll have plenty of excuses to try and get to the UC.
Normally, I’d say add me to the “don’t give a crap” group, but I’m in favor of the lockout if it keeps LeBron from winning a championship one more year. Not sure why I care though.
Add Kobe into that logic for me. Anything that further diminishes his legacy is a general win for America.
Nope. They should just do a big “March Madness” style tournament to decide a champ this year. It’d be more interesting.
Don’t care in the least.
I’ll miss it once the NHL season ends. Which if I’m remembering their current schedule correctly, will be sometime in 2015.
I guess there should be some sports between the Super Bowl and Spring Training.
I voted not really. I’ll miss it slightly for something on at the gym or for some nifty highlights on SportCenter, otherwise, I only really have any following at all in the playoffs. Sadly, I think this work stoppage will just make a lot of people realize how little they’ll miss it and not really bother whenever they start playing again.
A hole filled admirably by NHL Hockey and NCAA Basketball 
Born and raised in Portland, I’m a lifelong Blazer fan. When I was a kid and they lost to the Bulls in the Finals, or to the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals, I was near tears. Surprisingly, I’m not missing them much. Of course, I’m becoming a lot less interested on sports in general. I’ll still watch sports if I have nothing better to do, rather than make sure I don’t miss the game. Maybe it’s because most of my teams aren’t as competitive as they used to be. Or maybe I’m just burned out on watching sports for no good reason.
Nope. To me, basketball involves spelling horse.
Nope. The NBA is sort of on the same level as MLS soccer on my radar of things I like to watch. That is, I don’t watch it. At all. I think I caught 3-4 minutes of the finals last year. I enjoy watching the NCAA BB tournament, but that’s about it for basketball. I just think it’s an uninteresting spectator sport, especially at the pro level. The players look like they’re phoning it in for 3/4 of the game. That’s why I love the NCAA tourney…those kids are going ALL OUT the entire game.
I pretty much only regularly watch NFL football, with a casual interest in college football (the lack of a playoff really kills NCAA football for me…I hate the ‘vote on who should play for the title’ crap), and NHL hockey. I’d watch NCAA hockey more often, as I fell in love with hockey in college, but it’s rarely televised.
I watch NFL every week and I subscribe to Center Ice to watch all the Penguins games, and that pretty much makes up my sporting viewing.