I alluded to this in this morning’s post about nuclear winter, and I’ll expound on it in two more ways here: in print, and via audio. You can bet your bottom dollar that David Stern wanted to have a full, 82-game season, or a fallback 72-game season if it netted him an extra $800 million, which it did. And you can double that bet on the notion that he never knew it would come to this back on June 30 when
The NBA’s nuclear winter has begun
NEW YORK — The above image is the new Avatar on colleague Alan Hahn’s Twitter account — @alanhahn. Yes, nuclear winter arrived yesterday, the day before what was supposed to be the first payday for players in the 2011-12 NBA season. But today is forecast to be another 65 degree day in the city that used to be the headquarters of the National Basketball Players Association, which technically no longer exists. Sort of. Just don’t try checking their Web site for
Doomsday: NBPA no longer exists; Al Gore’s lawyer now in charge
// NEW YORK — Armegeddon arrived suddenly for the NBA today, with the players’ union legally disbanding and saying it will file a lawsuit seeking triple damages under anti-trust laws rather than accept the final proposal put forward by NBA owners. Billy Hunter is now disempowered, David Stern says the season is in jeopardy, and the new man in charge is high-powered attorney David Boies, who represented NFL owners defending themselves against a decertification movement last summer and whose most famous case, Bush
Stern told AP: No tweaks
NEW YORK — Here is an update from the lobby of the hotel where the players are meeting: Kobe Bryant and Carmelo Anthony and Tyson Chandler are among the players meeting in a conference room, sitting nearby in the media workroom is Brian Mahoney of the AP, who is reporting some more of what commissioner David Stern told him Saturday night. Incredibly, because of its timing — right smack dab in the middle of the players’ meeting, we are getting word of Stern’s
Lockout update: Decision day for players, or not
NEW YORK — Billy Hunter is getting a break today from the cabal of agents who want to kick him out of his job. They are sitting on a decertification petition with more than 200 signatures, and a source in that cabal told SheridanHoops.com that it is highly unlikely the petition will be filed with the NLRB until Hunter meets with 30 team player representatives at a Times Square hotel. So Hunter has bought some time. What remains to be seen is whether
Owners’ proposal is viewable online
USA Today has obtained it and published it. Click here to read it.
Explaining the NBA lockout to the rest of the world, via the BBC
The lockout is illogical. Everyone here in America pretty much understands that, although folks who follow the NBA labor situation closely can comprehend how we’ve gotten to this particular juncture. Outside of the United States, the NBA lockout is incomprehensible to the vast majority of the world. Hopefully, through the global reach of the BBC, folks are now a little better informed. Thanks to colleague Chris Mitchell for arranging this interview I did with the BBC World Service. Click to listen.
Lockout update: Misinformation rules
NEW YORK — Players reps from all 30 NBA teams are arriving in town today, and tomorrow they’ll get debriefed on what is and what isn’t in the owners’ latest proposal. Up until now, they’ve been getting fed plenty of bad information in the two days since the owners and players went their separate ways at the conclusion of Thursday night’s bargaining session. Case in point: ESPN.com drew 5,000-plus comments on a story about how players could be sent down to the D-League
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