David Stern referred to the recent breakdown in NBA labor negotiations as “the nuclear winter of the NBA.” Let’s see how it stacks up to the real thing:
| NBA Nuclear Winter | Actual Nuclear Winter | |
|---|---|---|
| Refers to | A season without NBA basketball | The atmospheric consequences of nuclear war |
| Causes | Impasse in negotiations between players’ union and owners | Dense smoke from nuclear explosions and burning urban areas rising into the stratosphere, blocking out the sun and prompting drastic drops in surface temperatures for years |
| Most noticeable effect | #LockoutLife | All agriculture becomes impossible for over a decade |
| Understated repercussion | Thousands of arena workers lose jobs in poor economy | Viggo Mortensen, blinded by desperation, steals Omar’s clothes |
| Most unfortunate consequence | Possible North American Tour for J.D. and the Straight Shot | Everyone on the planet starves to death and dies |
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