NEW YORK — The sides have been together today for more than 10 hours — unless you subtract the time when Billy Hunter and several players took a short stroll outside to get dinner — and there could be a strong push to get this thing across the finish line tonight, unless it backfires. Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports is reporting that after finishing a call with the owners’ labor relations committee, commissioner David Stern will deliver a revised offer to
Archives for November 2011
Bernucca column: Questions for 30 teams after lockout ends
You know what it smells like? Victory. Victory for the owners. And you know what else? Some day, this war is gonna end. When it does, all 30 teams, from the champs to the chumps, will have limited time to find the answers to their most burning questions in what will be an extremely abbreviated offseason activity period. So let’s look at those questions, along with some answers. ATLANTA: Is one ball enough? It says here that the Hawks should dump either Jamal Crawford through
Lockout update: The clock remains stopped as sides still talking
NEW YORK — Draw no conclusions from this picture. There are more chairs and more microphones nearby if needed, and there is an NBA backdrop at the ready. There were six microphones at the table earlier, people starting drawing invalid conclusions, and David Stern himself came down and rearranged things (OK, that last part is not true). At some point this afternoon or tonight or in the wee hours of tomorrow morning, a news conference will be held in the room where I
Lockout update: They’ve stopped the clock
// NEW YORK — To be continued … NBA players and owners met for nearly 12 hours Wednesday and “stopped the clock” at 1 a.m. EST, agreeing to resume negotiations at noon Thursday. “Nothing was worked out today,” commissioner David Stern said. “I would not read into this optimism or pessimism.” With the players having already indicated a willingness to accept a 50-50 split of basketball related income, the sides discussed a litany of unresolved system issues. Stern had issued a deadline of
Lockout update: Owners and players are talking again
csprtContainer(); NEW YORK — With the clock ticking toward NBA commissioner David Stern’s open-to-interpretation deadline of “by the close of business on Wednesday,” lockout negotiations resumed this afternoon with only the heavy hitters in the room. Stern, deputy commisioner Adam Silver and San Antonio Spurs owner Peter Holt, chairman of the league’s labor relations committee, were representing the owners along with senior NBA attorneys Dan Rube and Rick Buchanan. Union director Billy Hunter, president Derek Fisher, executive committee members Roger Mason and Mo
Lockout, Day 132: Will we see Day 133? – UPDATE
NEW YORK — Chris Broussard of ESPN is reporting that details are being finalized for a 1 p.m. meeting today. So it appears commissioner David Stern will agree to one more sitdown with the union to try to make a deal before today’s “close of business” deadline for the players to accept or reject the offer the owners put on the table Saturday night. Stern told NBA-TV he would first have to speak to the owners’ Labor Relations Committee before agreeing to another sitdown.
Lockout update: Wednesday is THE day
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Union, willing to give back more money, wants one more meeting
NEW YORK — NBA players want one more meeting with commissioner David Stern and the owners. And although they are probably not willing to say “pretty-please,” they are willing to pay for the privilege. Making the surprising declaration that they are prepared to make further financial concessions (goodbye, 51 percent), team representatives from the NBA players union said Tuesday they still want to make a deal, and they still want to make it by tomorrow, as long as it is fair. Union
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