NBA Talks Break Down Over Money, Games In Jeopardy
NBA owners and players have failed again to get close to a labor deal, and union president Derek Fisher says he anticipates the remainder of the preseason to be canceled.
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NBA owners and players have failed again to get close to a labor deal, and union president Derek Fisher says he anticipates the remainder of the preseason to be canceled.
NBA owners and players have finished meeting in small groups and will return Tuesday for what union president Derek Fisher says will likely be a "a very huge day" in the labor lockout.
NBA owners and players failed to reach a deal after about seven hours of talks Saturday, mostly about the salary cap structure, and will meet again Monday.
With exactly one month until the season is scheduled to start, NBA owners and players are meeting for a second straight day in hopes of ending the lockout.
NBA commissioner Davis Stern has drawn a line in the sand.
Talks ended after two days Wednesday so negotiators could return home before summoning their respective bargaining committees to New York for the most important stretch of the lockout. They are prepared to meet through the weekend if progress toward a new collective bargaining agreement is being made.
The NBA postponed training camps indefinitely and canceled 43 preseason games Friday because it has not reached a new labor deal with players.
A person with knowledge of the plans says staffs from the NBA and players' association will meet Wednesday, without top negotiators from either side.
The NFL has turned us all into crackheads. We have to have it, and can't live without it. When we get it, we binge on it until it's gone, and then we start looking for it again.
NBA owners and players are meeting again Tuesday, this time with their full bargaining committees as the negotiations to end the league's lockout reach an important stage.
Is anyone else sick of lockouts? It was bad enough that sports fans had to deal with the NFL lockout for what seemed like an eternity, and now, the NBA lockout has just passed the two month mark.
NBA owners and players have met for about 5 1/2 hours and plan to resume negotiations Thursday.
The NBA has filed an unfair labor practice charge and a federal lawsuit against the NBA Players Association, accusing the players of failing to bargain "in good faith".
The NBA laid off about 114 people over the last two days, planned cost-cutting moves that a league spokesman said Thursday are "not a direct result of the lockout."
Union chief Billy Hunter said Thursday afternoon that owners had locked out the players after failing to reach a new collective bargaining agreement.
The NBA will have its last chance to avoid a work stoppage as the collective bargaining agreement is set to expire at midnight. The two sides will meet on Thursday, and are seemingly nowhere close to a deal.
Dressed in matching T-shirts urging solidarity, NBA players are meeting with owners with less than a week left before the expiration of the collective bargaining agreement.
Commissioner David Stern said Tuesday that NBA owners have proposed a "flex cap" system, but players still insist its a hard cap which they won't agree to.
Several months into the NFL Lockout, fans are pretty familiar with the issues at hand. But as the expiration of the NBA's collective bargaining agreement approaches, fans are going to have to get used a different climate for negotiations.
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David Stern says owners and players remain "very far apart" on a new labor deal after completing two days of negotiations.
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