BARCELONA — Bo McCalebb stands to Andrei Kirilenko’s left with Macedonia’s flag draped around his neck. Several feet to Bo’s left, just past Tony Parker and right before Pau Gasol is Juan Carlos Navarro, still wearing his number seven España jersey and smiling weakly. Both Bo and La Bomba are holding onto their All EuroBasket trophies, the undeniable heroes of the summer. But only Navarro waits on a medal. A gold one, in fact. That’s how it works when you’re a
Euroleague: Maccabi-Efes
Former New Jersey Nets teammate, Jordan Farmar and Sasha Vujacic competed against each other Thursday night as Maccabi Tel-Aviv knocked off Anadolu Efes 79-72 in Round 4 of the Euroleague. Maccabi managed to win despite giving up 17 offensive rebounds and turning the ball over 15 times, thanks to their efficient 60-percent shooting. While their former Laker teammate, Derrick Fisher, spent over 20 hours over the last two days sitting in a conference room negotiating, his former backcourt mates just finished an
NBA Lockout: What’s next
csprtContainer(); NEW YORK — The season will start Dec. 15, there will be 72 games, and the start of the NBA finals will be pushed back into mid-June instead of early June. That is assuming the players ratify the proposal David Stern made to the union late last night. Here are the next several steps: 1. The union’s player reps, with one player representing each team, will have the proposal detailed for them at a meeting in New York on Monday or Tuesday (depending
Lockout talks end; Clock to remain stopped
csprtContainer(); NEW YORK — The clock remains stopped, and it will stay that way until the early part of next week — and perhaps even longer. Eventually, we will learn whether there will be a 72-game season beginning Dec. 15, or a nuclear winter for the NBA. “”We have made our revised proposal, and we’re not planning to make another one. There’s nothing left to negotiate about,” commissioner David Stern said after the sides met for another 10 1/2 hours Thursday. Stern would not characterize
Yahoo’s Woj: Stern making new offer after conference call
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
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