By Chris Sheridan NEW YORK — Billy Hunter is scheduled to get on an airplane Sunday and fly to Los Angeles to give a briefing to several players on the state of the NBA lockout. David Stern and Adam Silver are observing the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur on Saturday, when sunset comes at 6:27 p.m. EDT local time and both men can break their fast, have a bite to eat and pick up the telephone — if they so choose. Right now, the owners
Lockout update: Remember this quote
By Chris Sheridan NEW YORK — “It demonstrates the potential for more movement on our part.” Those words came out of the mouth of NBA deputy commissioner Adam Silver on Tuesday after the owners offered the players a 50-50 split of revenues. So although some are writing that the players will never get an offer like that again, I’ll take the word of Silver over the word of a fellow blogissist. There is a fair chance there will be contact between the league office and the
Podcast: More on lockout
This is probably the longest podcast I have ever done. Thanks to Jacob Noble of TheProBasketballTalk.com for having me on. We recorded it right before the meetings broke yesterday. Jump to the 21:00 mark for when I join the show.
Sorting through the spin: Progress was made in NBA labor talks
csprtContainer(); By Chris Sheridan NEW YORK — At the start of the day, the score was Players: 54; Owners 46. At the end of the day, after a doomsday-like declaration from Billy Hunter that there might not be any more bargaining sessions or a month or two, then a pronouncement from David Stern that Monday was the deadline for making a deal or losing the start of the regular season, the score had changed. It is now Players: 53, Owners 50, in terms of the
Sedano show podcast: Another optimist found?
By Chris Sheridan Jorge Sedano of 790-The Ticket had me on as a guest this morning on Miami radio, and we found ourselves agreeing on a couple of things. Like how the players’ ultimate share, 52, 51 or 50 percent of designated revenues, will produce different ratification possibilities. Sedano also does not see today as doomsday or the true 11th hour. As noted yesterday, only David Stern holds the secret stopwatch. Click here to listen to the interview.
Lockout update: Interpretations
By Chris Sheridan NEW YORK — From my e-mail inbox, sent by an NBA fanatic who I know personally: “The season isn’t going to start on time. The players trust the player agents to successfully manage their careers more so than Derek Fisher (a ball player) and Billy Hunter (who is no match for David Stern). Who do you have more confidence in to get you the best deal? That memo did nothing but cause more divide in the union and strengthen
Lockout update: Sides “set the table” for Tuesday
By Chris Sheridan NEW YORK — OK, so it’s going to get real, real serious Tuesday at the NBA lockout talks. And then … Well, then we’ll have Wednesday, which will be real serious, too. And then there’s Thursday, and Friday. At some point, there is doomsday. We still don’t know when that date is. Or whether it was already mentioned above. Only the commish knows. NBA commissioner David Stern emerged from five hours of talks Monday saying it was time to get down to business, time
NBA Lockout Talks Have Resumed (With Video)
By Chris Sheridan NEW YORK — Here is the NBA lockout in a nutshell as Monday morning becomes Monday afternoon. _ There is a small group meeting ongoing right now. Only the heavy hitters are in attendance, including David Stern and Adam Silver from the league office, Derek Fisher and Billy Hunter from the Players Association, plus some support staff on both sides. There will be a larger meting Tuesday with the negotiating committees from both sides. Hunter is encouraging extra players