The NBA lockout drags on as the disagreements only continue to develop further between the NBA Players Union and the league's owners. As a result, it will be teams like the Boston Celtics that will suffer tremendously as a result of the never-ending lockout.

The Celtics are a veteran ball club that enter arguably their last season as championship contenders with Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen as their leaders. The Big Three may be getting their rest, yet in turn they are also getting that much older.

The lockout has not only worsened, but according to the Washington Post, it has gotten to the point in which the players have filed antitrust lawsuits against the league for keeping them out of work. According to the Post, two groups of players have filed antitrust lawsuits against the league in both California and Minnesota.

These are the five big reasons why a continued NBA lockout and the potential loss of the 2011-2012 NBA season hurts the Boston Celtics significantly more than it helps head coach Doc Rivers and the team.