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As Dalembert tells of his first visit to Haiti in the days after the earthquake, there is pain in each word, anguish on his face. Even as he describes the work to be done, frustration fights with determination. Determination wins. He will speak of all he has done and still plans to do. These are not dreams, though he has them, too. It is much more real than that. But in each telling, with every emotion so close to the surface in the days before Thursday’s second anniversary of the devastating earthquake, the sentiment that fills and drives Dalembert most is pride.

The NBA is in its "nuclear winter" of discontent. Coaches and general managers and all those who answer to them can fill their time trashing their plans for the season that might never come to begin the painfully slow process of preparing for the next season. For the Rockets, the potential demolition of the 2011-12 season could change everything.

As the NBA work stoppage careens toward a breaking point, with the players' association surveying the disparate positions of its members as Wednesday's league-imposed deadline to accept the owners' offer looms, the perspectives on life in a lockout are as varied as the suggested remedies. From the long shot to the leader, the veteran free agent to the player coming off injury and seeking a comeback, the lockout limbo hits differently, even as it consistently takes its toll.

Stoudemire has made the point that players are able to sit out a year, even two if necessary to get a deal they would accept, but he ignores that few players have made Amar’e Stoudemire money or that many union members would lose their chance to make an NBA-type living playing basketball. Most of all, he ignores that while players are better prepared to wait far longer than they have ever before, owners are prepared to wait forever.