Why would the league lock out the players over fans resenting about League Pass? That's clearly an owner issue.
In my mind, the NBA should move away from a localized, attendance-based model and lean more heavily into affordable streaming and only national contracts. That doesn't mean only let ESPN do the games. Disney has to be by far the biggest broadcaster with their acquisition of Bally Sports. The league has that, Comcast and Turner as partners. That's fewer than the NFL has nowadays. They can definitely work something out. I enjoy attending games too, but I'm always going to watch the vast majority of them remotely. That's where the league's money mainly comes from, and they need to improve that or else they aren't going to be able to draw the numbers needed to persuade the networks to cough up the dough. In that regard, people don't appreciate how much the 24/7 hype cycle around player movement drives revenue for the league's partners (and thus the league). That's why even though I don't like it, the league is going to be way less offended by the recent landscape than fans want them to be.
As I mentioned before, I do think the two sides will agree that the Simmons situation (whether he was lying or not) was bad optics, and that they need a clear rulebook on how to deal with situations like that so you don't have Phillly running around and breaking the CBA. Hopefully, they realize the DPE was a horrible idea unless it comes with restrictions for the player and team to prevent trades. It's hard to come up with a way that could happen. Maybe a general barring from trades outside of a situation where the two sides agree and a league arbiter grants and exception. Maybe only allow trades in the last year of a player's deal if they had Bird rights when they signed the deal. There are ways to do it that prevents the worst of the movement while not really restricting most players. But what we won't see is the league "crack down" on the players. They are not the players' daddies; they are their business partners. I don't know if any fan would like their business partners acting paternalistic to them.