NEW YORK — Good morning. Hope you got some sleep. I didn’t get much, and I imagine Jeffrey Kessler didn’t either. Kessler, the lead outside counsel for NBA players (he performs the same role for NFL players) was practically foaming at the mouth in the wee hours of the a.m. after David Stern and Derek Fisher had conducted their respective news conferences in the most diplomatic tones they could muster. The moment Fisher left the room, Kessler started venting. Loudly. And he didn’t let
Archives for November 2011
Lockout update: So Close, Yet So Far
NEW YORK — They are closer. Yet the sides in the NBA lockout are still far apart in many, many ways, and the players are especially irate because they believe the owners are trying to force a bad deal down their throats. That was the upshot of Saturday night’s 8 1/2 hour negotiating session, which ended with the owners telling the players they had accepted five of six suggestions made by arbitrator George Cohen and had adopted them into a formal proposal
Stern gives union until Wednesday to accept mediated offer
NEW YORK — David Stern and NBA owners have made a new take it-or-leave-it offer to the players, who have until Wednesday to make up their minds. The new offer; incorporating suggestions made by federal mediator George Cohen, would give the players between 49 and 51 percent of revenues; depending on the level of financial growth. The union did not immediately comment following the 8 1/2-hour meeting, but Stern said union attorney Jeffrey Kessler had rejected the new proposal. Stern said the owners
Lockout talks: 12 a.m. EDT update
NEW YORK — We are past the 7-hour mark at the NBA lockout talks, and there are no smoke signals coming from the negotiating room. It is another stakeout at another hotel, and the same cast of media characters is sitting vigil. This time we are in a conference room instead of a lobby, quite an improvement over the sidewalk stakeout the night the media overran cozy East 63rd Street to such a degree that photographers nearly brawled. One item of note
Lockout Update: Michael Jordan, Paul Allen in the house
NEW YORK — Michael Jordan and Paul Allen, two megalomaniacs who were only bit players through the first 128 days of the NBA lockout, were in attendance Saturday evening as negotiations between owners and players resumed with federal mediator George Cohen assisting. But it was a mix of hawks and doves, too, as Jordan and Allen were joined by Mickey Arison of the Miami Heat, who was fined $500,000 early in the week after he tweeted a fan was “barking at
Sheridan column: On con games and lockout settlements
NEW YORK — “Michael Jordan is a con man.” Those words were spoken by Jeff Van Gundy, then the coach of the New York Knicks, on a Chicago radio station in January of 1997 when the Bulls and the Knicks were bitter rivals whose epic postseason clashes almost always managed to go Chicago’s way. Van Gundy meant it in a complimentary way, saying Jordan was brilliantly ruthless for the way he befriended opposing players off the court and then demolished them on the
Tweet of the Day: Mark Cuban’s brother
This tweet was pointed out in an excellent post by Vishnu Parasuraman on Grantland.com: @bcubanBrian Cuban The owners are publicly not at 51 percent but I suspect they have 1 percent in their back pocket to close this out. 2 Nov via TweetDeck
Mediator to return to NBA talks
NEW YORK — Federal mediator George Cohen will be back in the mix Saturday when owners and players resume collective bargaining discussions. The NBA confirmed Friday afternoon that Cohen will attend. Previously, as outlined in this post yesterday, the union had given its OK for Cohen to return and was awaiting a response from the NBA. The bargaining session will begin at 4 p.m. EDT, after the NBA holds a Board of Governors meeting.
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