NEW YORK — Owners and players held their longest bargaining session since the NBA lockout was imposed July 1, breaking the 13-hour mark — and continuing to talk — as the clock hit 11 p.m. EDT Tuesday night. Federal mediator George Cohen was presiding over the meeting, which included the owners’ and players’ full bargaining committees. There were no details being released regarding what was transpiring in the bargaining room, but the very fact that the sides were spending so much time
This e-mailer should be a reporter
By Chris Sheridan I got an e-mail from a reader who attended the “City of Brotherly Love vs. Chocolate City” charity game last weekend, and the more I read, the more I wondered why this dude hadn’t chosen journalism as a profession. He has a tremendous eye for detail. His name is Travis Hill, his Twitter is @THillTeev, and here is what he wrote. “I went to the DC-Philly charity basketball game at Coolidge High in Northeast DC Saturday night and it was one of
Tweet of the Day: Metta World Peace
At least one player is figuring out a way to get paid during the lockout: @MettaWorldPeaceMetta WorldPeace Party!!!! Thursday!!! Chris Brown and Ron Artest!! T Raider promotions!! Star Power!yfrog.com/nuvd0spj
Update from Lockout Talks in NYC
By Chris Sheridan NEW YORK — It’s a full house here at the NBA lockout talks, with every member of the owners’ labor relations committee and every member of the players’ executive committee in attendance (with the exception of Keyon Dooling), along with a federal mediator. We’ve even got an extra Buss, with both Jerry, and his daughter, Jeanie, sitting in the negotiating room. As the clock neared 6 p.m., the sides had been meeting for almost eight hours. The most colorful anecdote from the press room
Hubbard column: The side with the most islands wins
By Jan Hubbard As far as I can tell, there is no truth to the rumor than in the last couple of weeks, people who participate in the illegal activity of cockfighting have been naming their roosters “David” and “Billy.” NBA commissioner David Stern and union chief Billy Hunter pecked at each other quite a bit after Stern cancelled the first two weeks of the NBA season. As always, Stern was the aggressor. In a series of radio and television interviews, Stern came
Sheridan column: What they’re fighting over
By Chris Sheridan NEW YORK — So they’ll all be back in the same room together Tuesday, this time with a federal mediator presumably presiding over and standing between the owners and the players. When collective bargaining talks resume Tuesday, mediator George Cohen will be trying to get the main players in the NBA lockout to compromise on the major differences keeping them apart, and it’s anyone’s guess whether he’ll have any luck. Positions tend to harden whenever a work stoppage goes past
Tweet of the Day: Kevin Durant
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Heisler Column: War is hell. Just ask JaVale McGee
By Mark Heisler Ask JaVale McGee if war isn’t hell. I’m not sure who else thinks the situation is “definitely critical,” other than the Wizards center and, of course, the press. It’s definitely not the NBA owners, who laughed their rear ends off at McGee’s, uh, candid reporting at last week’s union meeting in Beverly Hills, Calif. Cutting out an hour early, JaVale told a press throng in the lobby of the Beverly Hilton that “some guys ready to stand strong” but noted, “there were,
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