Stern Goes Home Sick On Crucial Day Of Negotiations
The marathon NBA bargaining sessions have taken their toll on Commissioner David Stern.
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The marathon NBA bargaining sessions have taken their toll on Commissioner David Stern.
NBA players and owners spent a marathon 16 hours meeting with a federal mediator and planned to return early Wednesday to continue the talks.
NBA players and owners are meeting with a federal mediator, and Commissioner David Stern believes more games could be canceled if there isn't movement toward a new labor deal.
The unemployment rate is still high, and yet, here we sports fans are again, listening to another group of millionaires and billionaires argue over money.
The fate of the NBA's season could rest on Tuesday's meetings.
NBA owners apparently weren't bluffing when they said they wanted competitive balance just as much as a chance to profit.
National Basketball Players Association Director Billy Hunter has said repeatedly that the NBA's intention was always to cancel 2011-12 regular-season games.
NBA Commissioner David Stern has canceled the first two weeks of the season after owners and players were unable to reach a new labor deal and end the lockout.
Derek Fisher emerged from a meeting with NBA officials and, as he as all summer, reported no breakthrough on a new labor deal.
Top negotiators for the NBA and players' association will meet Sunday night in perhaps the last chance to avoid canceled regular-season games, according to a person with knowledge of the plans.
Carmelo Anthony fully expects the NBA to cancel some regular-season games soon, and said players around the league have been bracing to hear that grim news.
Women deserve to play sports. Heck, they should as much as possible. Fiscally possible, that is. The WNBA just is not, and it's time the big boys and everyone else accepts that.
Dear David Stern, Billy Hunter, various grim-faced lawyers, union representatives, hired-gun economists, and rank-and-file ballers: don't take this season from Derrick Rose.
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.
With the NBA lockout threating regular season games, Derrick Rose told the Chicago Tribune he'd consider playing overseason.
The NBA postponed training camps indefinitely and canceled 43 preseason games Friday because it has not reached a new labor deal with players.
The lockout is about to start inflicting damage on the preseason schedule — and neither players nor owners can say what will happen to the real games.
A person with knowledge of the plans says staffs from the NBA and players' association will meet Wednesday, without top negotiators from either side.
NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith will speak to NBA players during a meeting to update them on collective bargaining talks.
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.
