Los Angeles ? Oh, no, am I here all alone?

Actually, the world didn’t end when the NBA locked its players out.

The NBA didn’t even end, even if it felt as if was about to as darkness moved across the land.

I have nothing against doomsday scenarios … but if that’s all that’s out there, something had better be coming to an end, or it’s just the media chasing its tail again.

With months of this idiocy left, let’s see how close we can come to some actual perspective:

• Who’s pushing this, owners or players?

The owners, seeking a monster giveback. Before this they would fight for six months over 5 percent. The owners started this seeking 14 percent.

• How about the players breaking faith with the fans?

Not.

For all the flak players inevitably get, because they’re the ones living out fans’ dreams, they’re not asking for a single thing and have accepted the fact they’ll take a cut … just not the one the owners have in mind.

• So the owners are wrong?

Not wrong, just overboard.

Half the NBA has always had to operate too close to the blade.

Of course, it’s not just the players’ responsibility.

• Why lock players out for show, with no revenue or salary at risk for months?

To avoid losing revenue and salary, which would really upset everyone.

Now they have three months to torture each other, make a deal and climb aboard their golden goose.

• What if they just kept talking?

The later it went, the more leverage would tilt to the players.

In 1994, Commissioner Bud Selig started the baseball season without a bargaining agreement.

In August, the union struck, giving the owners a choice between caving or losing the postseason.

The owners lost their postseason, but haven’t messed with the union since, leaving them the only major U.S. league without a salary cap and payrolls ranging from the Yankees’ $202 million to the Royals’ $36 million.

• Why not split the difference now, as they’re likely to whenever this ends?

Both sides think the other will crack.

• What next?

More pretend bargaining sessions, before breaking off for a month or so.

The real action will be elsewhere, in the NFL, which will have an effect.

If the NFL starts on time, there will be pressure on the NBA to do it too, or look like an unruly kindergarten.

If not, the NBA has perfect cover.

• Did the lockout have the influence the NBA wanted?

If media reaction meant anything, the players would have given up.

Fans were advised to “say goodbye to the short-lived new golden era” as the NBA shows “the NFL how to conduct a truly contentious labor war” that makes 1998 “look like a summer stroll.”

I’ve thought all along Stern, the Mozart of labor relations who raised the curtain on this opera years ago, will extract what he needs from players and owners in the last act, dressed as a fat lady wearing a Viking helmet.

Maybe they miss a month.

If not, what can Stern — or I — say but … oops!