With every day that passes it appears more likely that the National Hockey League season will be lost due to negotiation breakdowns between the league and the players union over a new Collective Bargaining Agreement, and with the NBA agreement set to expire after this season Raptors forward Jalen Rose believes that a lockout of players by owners after this season is inevitable in basketball as well.

"To be honest I feel like we're going to have lockout," said Rose, the 10-year veteran. "I feel like that's inevitable in the NBA."

The NBA, of course, is less than five years removed from the 1998-99 lockout that cancelled 464 games and saw the regular season shrunk from 82 games to 50.

"I just feel like (the expiration of the collective bargaining agreement) is an opportunity for a power struggle," said Rose. "Every time there's going to be a collective bargaining change, there's going to always be both sides disagreeing on who should get more when it comes to the profit that's been gained since the last bargaining agreement."

Key items which the players union and the league are sure to clash over this summer include a review of the luxury tax and an NBA age limit to try to combat a flood of teenage draftees.