While the Peel Pub is rarely empty in the evening, Moussa estimated that business was down 30 percent during the lockout, a situation that forced him to cut his part-time staff by half.
Neither Rivers nor Ainge would discuss how a lockout might affect his situation.
Mr. Brown, the union president, labeled the situation a lockout and blamed not merely the nursing home operators but also the governor, John G. Rowland, who has directed the state to pay $1 million a day for replacement workers.
"The lockout year we were in a similar situation as we're in now," Sprewell said.
Ohio State's Jared Sullinger, Baylor's Perry Jones and North Carolina's Harrison Barnes were expected to be top-10 picks, but they returned for their sophomore years because of the uncertainty about the league's labor situation and the prospect of a lockout.
The guys also touched on the increasingly interesting plight of Cedric Benson, what in the world is happening with the NBA Lockout and, of course, just how crazy this Ozzie Guillen situation really is.
Beyond falling TV ratings, the labor situation is unsettled and could result in a long strike or lockout next season, and the 30-team league lost a combined $273 million during the 2002-3 seaccordingording to an analysis prepared for the league by Arthur Levitt, a former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"In that situation, the board and musicians came together and bargained throughout a long lockout in order to reach a resolution that the community can afford.
With this year's NFL lockout plaguing the production of early episodes of the third season, "The League" handled the situation deftly, and even addressed said lockout in the first episode of the season.
