This is going to be one crazy day. And the craziness began just after midnight, EST, when Yahoo Sports published an e-mail it said was sent from Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert to commissioner David Stern, deputy commissioner Adam Silver and some other owners urging him to shoot down the three-team trade that would have sent Chris Paul from the New Orleans Hornets to the Los Angeles Lakers . Curiously, the Yahoo report is unbylined. (It also does not mention whether it
NBA labor agreement passes by 25-5 vote
NEW YORK — Five NBA owners voted against the league’s new collective bargaining agreement, commissioner David Stern said Thursday following the conclusion of the league’s Board of Governors meeting. The identities of those five teams were not disclosed, and Stern joked that the over/under on negative votes as set at 8 before the ballots were cast. But what Stern did disclose is that he expects this to be the last collective bargaining agreement he negotiates – even if one side chooses to
Hubbard column: Did players really lose? You mean like they did in 1999?
Less than two decades after James Naismith invented basketball, he attended a game between Kansas and Missouri and was appalled when he saw Rule No. 5 of his Thirteen Original Rules of Basketball being violated. That rule calls for, “No shouldering, holding, pushing, tripping or striking,” because the premise of basketball was that it would be a non-contact sport. Even by 1910, however, players were doing what comes natural, gleefully banging into each other like a bunch of early-day Charles Oakleys
Guest Column: Twitter’s fascinating role in the lockout
(Readers: When the news came just after 3 a.m. today that the NBA lockout had been settled, there was no live TV coverage of the announcement, no streaming video on the Internet. The only place to get the news was Twitter, through updates from reporters in the room covering the news briefing. In this age of instant communications, it was another fascinating glimpse into the power of the 140-character communication tool.-CS) By Ryan Spoon of www.ryanspoon.com Sports fans got a Black Friday
BULLETIN: Deal reached to end NBA lockout
NEW YORK — A handshake deal is in place, and the NBA season is set to begin on Christmas Day. David Stern and Billy Hunter announced a tentative agreement to end the NBA lockout shortly before 4 a.m. Saturday in a small conference room at a law firm in the General Motors Building in Manhattan. Gentlemen, start your engines! The settlement, first reported by Ken Berger of CBSSports.com, came on the 149th day of the work stoppage that forced the postponement of the
Lockout update: Almost midnight edition (with audio)
NEW YORK — About an hour ago, a rumpled looking David Stern walked through the lobby of the building where negotiations are being held. After much speculation, the favored explanation was that he had tried to get back into the building through the wrong entrance and had to walk around the block. At least that was my interpretation. Other than that, it been a brutally dull and cold evening on lockout stakeout duty tonight, with the sides now approaching 12 hours together.
Lockout talks: Brief update
NEW YORK – NBA lockout talks stretched into the evening Friday at the same building where the 1998 lockout took a turn for the worse, and where Latrell Sprewell’s arbitration hearing was held. Just a stone’s throw from Central Park, the usual suspects from more than two dozen previous negotiating sessions assembled again. They included David Stern, Adam Silver and Peter Holt for the owners; and Billy Hunter, Derek Fisher and Maurice Evans for the players. The players new antitrust litigation lawyers;
Lockout update: What the players want
NEW YORK — It is Black Friday, and the players are going bargain(ing) hunting at today’s NBA lockout negotiations. If commissioner David Stern is willing mark down a few pieces of merchandise, there will be something under the tree for everyone on Christmas Day. There is a deal to be done today, or later this weekend, if the owners are in a giving mood, but the players had better realize that they are not going to get everything on their wish list.
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