NEW YORK — Owners and players will met again Friday, which is 30 days before Christmas. And since commissioner David Stern has said it will take approximately 30 days from the date a handshake agreement is reached until the season can start, Friday is going to be a pivotal day. But with that being said, if a handshake is reached Saturday or Sunday, 29 or 28 days will suffice. A couple of clarifications are in order, based on what I am hearing. _
Escrow system still problematic; Kessler shelved?
NEW YORK — He is a close-talker and a loud-talker whose voice can be the verbal equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard. David Stern has called his behavior “routinely despicable,” and on more than one occasion he has commandeered the post-meeting news briefings to incessantly spew vitriol at the NBA owners with whom he has been butting heads. He is Jeffrey Kessler, the lead outside counsel for what used to be known as the National Basketball Players Association, and he is
New lawyers impacting NBA talks, which resume Friday
NEW YORK — Jonathan Schiller of the law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner, which is representing NBA players in their legal fight with owners, said today in an e-mailed statement that there will be “preliminary settlement discussions with the NBA immediately after Thanksgiving with regard to the lawsuit filed recently by the players.” Schiller and his partner were not even players in this drama two weeks ago, but the negotiation has changed ever since the union filed its disclaimer of interest. Now,
NBA sides have been meeting secretly; 66 game season eyed
At a certain point, the sides had to start talking again, right? And after two dozen negotiating sessions that played out in public, with both sides issuing their spin in comments to the media afterward (with the exception of sessions mediated by George Cohen), we are now learning that secret meetings have been taking place yesterday and today — presumably in an effort to settle all matters related to the NBA lockout, which would include litigation and collective bargaining matters. Adrian Wojnarowski
Deron Williams scored 50 points for Besiktas, but …
… his teammate, Semih Erden (who also plies his trade for the Cleveland Cavaliers) broke his thumb and will be out at least two months.
Sheridan column: Boies wavers on whether he’ll call NBA
NEW YORK — The next logical step in the illogical NBA lockout is for David Boies to call Jeffrey Mishkin, or for Jeffrey Mishkin to call David Boies. The latter attorney, Boies, who represented Al Gore against George W. Bush in the 2000 U.S. presidential election, now represents NBA players, and Mishkin is the outside counsel for NBA commissioner David Stern and the owners. It would take approximately 2 minutes for their secretaries to put that call together. And after obfuscating and posturing
Angry at the NBA? Read this
In between episodes of banging my head against the wall, I opened this e-mail today from a group calling itself NBA Fanifesto that is offering angry NBA fans a place to vent their frustrations. “NBAfanifesto.com exists for one simple purpose: to allow NBA fans to express their collective disapproval, frustration and resentment with the lack of progress in the NBA’s collective bargaining negotiations. In this depressed world economy, greed, stubbornness, and ego have kept millionaires and billionaires from agreeing about how
Video: J.R. Smith injures his knee
Jon Pastuszek reported on Twitter than Smith was carried by teammates to an ambulance. For more on this developing story, check out Jon’s Chinese basketball Website www.niubball.com.
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