The Onion weighs in on the NBA Lockout

These guys are always good for a larf (onionsportsnetwork.com) ...

Any hope for the 2011 NBA season may soon disappear in a confusing morass of mutual greed, antitrust litigation, and David Stern's uselessness. Onion Sports breaks down the key points and what they mean for the fans:

• Lebron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh are now legally obligated to find something else not to be the champion of
• All jammas will be without slammas for the foreseeable future
• Despite having no obligation to do so, Knicks owner James Dolan will continue sending Eddy Curry checks out of habit
• Until the players union reassembles, children shooting hoops in their driveway are legally prohibited from pretending to be any current NBA player
• Although talks continue, both owners and players are expected to reject Kobe Bryant's offer to be paid $2 billion to play an entire season by himself
• As All-Star Weekend is now canceled, there can be no resolution of whether the league's rookies or sophomores are better by means of a single game in which everyone is trying to make cool dunks
• That old Peja Stojakovic jersey at the Champs Sports in the mall is now 50 percent off
• The NHL will continue to go unwatched and unloved
• Despite disagreement on almost every issue, owners and players alike will continue to mutter "Shut up" whenever David Stern starts talking
• Over the next few weeks, players and ownership hope to resolve issues over money while at the same time destroying the sport of basketball forever

The NBA lockout and fun with pixels!

Some of you may have become familiar with this site via your social network of choice a few months back, but the "Origin Generator" (genzu.net) is a wondrous bit of online ephemera which allows you to enter any word of your choosing, then watch in amazement as the site "pixelizes" that word before morphing it into some other random word that shares many of the same pixel positions.

It's a marvelous little time waster, and with nothing better to do as the NBA lockout rages on (perhaps reaching an unfortunate climax by the end of the day?), I decided to enter some terms that are relevant to the current situation and see what the Generator would come up with.

Behold ...

Well, that doesn't fit.

Hmmm ...

Now we're getting somewhere!

I knew it!

Or lack thereof ...

Some people might think so ...

And we have a winner!