By Chris Sheridan NEW YORK — Negotiations to end the NBA lockout are resuming today in Manhattan with all the heavy hitters in attendance, so there will be some news before the end of the day. Stay tuned on that front. In the meantime, chew on these two articles: In the Oregonian, columnist John Canzano reports an amnesty provision could be part of the new labor agreement, and it would provide some serious cap flexibility leaguewide: “Two NBA sources told me Tuesday that they believe
Quote of the morning from David Stern
By Chris Sheridan From NBA commissioner David Stern, via Associated Press writers Jaime Aron and Greg Beacham: “The clock is ticking, but it hasn’t struck midnight yet,” he said. “We have time to do what has to be done and we’d like to do it, actually.” In my view, the clock hasn’t even struck 11 o’clock yet. I still say the deal gets done sometime before or around Oct. 1, as I wrote in my debut column for this site less than two weeks
NBA Lockout update: Interpretations
By Chris Sheridan I’ve already given you my take on yesterday’s collective bargaining negotiations in New York. So we shall once again take a trip around the Internet to have a look at the views of the writers who have been closely covering this dispute. _ Ken Berger, CBSSports.com: “The only thing both sides agreed on after this latest round of posturing and semi-negotiating was that the players had come to the table with economic concessions the owners and NBA negotiators could live
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