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Businesses around the Palace of Auburn Hills are paying close attention to the NBA labor talks to determine the fate of the season -- and their livelihoods.
If a labor agreement can't be reached with the National Basketball Players Association during a Tuesday negotiation session led by federal mediator George Cohen, then the league's annual Christmas Day games will be put into grave jeopardy.
The NBA labor talks are headed for government intervention after the canceling of games drew the attention of the nation's top federal mediator.
Time waits for no man. Or union of men.
NBA Commissioner David Stern has made good on his threat to cancel the first two weeks of the season unless a new labor agreement was in place by Monday.
Facing a deadline for the cancellation of regular season games, negotiators for the NBA and its players' association met for nearly 5 1-2 hours Sunday night and will reconvene Monday afternoon for more bargaining.
At one point during the most important negotiation in two years of psychological and economic warfare, someone took a moment for comic relief.
NBA commissioner David Stern announced on Tuesday that the league would cancel the rest of its preseason schedule effective immediately
Players had offered to reduce their guarantee of basketball-related income from 57 to 53 percent, which they said would have given owners back more than $1 billion over six years.
The clock on the NBA season is getting close to striking midnight. It's that hour.
David Stern supposedly was in a very threatening, do-or-die type of mood after Wednesday's labor talks.
Negotiators from the NBA and its players' union ended bargaining talks after about two hours Tuesday, retreating to separate meetings at their offices with both sides acknowledging that there was something to think about.
Officials from the NBA and its players' union are finalizing details of a bargaining session that will take place Tuesday in New York and possibly extend to Wednesday, a person familiar with the details told CBSSports.com.
Kaman's tweet just says "might have a full season" which isn't anything all that earth-shattering.
As expected, the NBA on Friday indefinitely postponed the start of training camps and canceled preseason games scheduled from Oct. 9-15 -- a total of 43 games -- because it has yet to reach a new collective bargaining agreement with the players.
No labor deal, no training camps and no telling what else the NBA could lose.
While providing no details of his latest meeting with locked out players, Commissioner David Stern is acknowledging that "the calendar is not our friend" when it comes to keeping the NBA season intact.
Staff members from the NBA and players' association have met, and top negotiators from both sides will talk Thursday.
With time running short on efforts to preserve an on-time start to the NBA season, the league and players' association will have a staff-level meeting Wednesday.
Full committees of NBA owners and players met Tuesday with a hint of progress on the economic split but no signs of compromise on the hard salary cap owners are trying to impose.
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.
Preseason games don't matter in a lot of ways. They don't make money, they don't do a lot in terms of tuning up teams.
It will be a busy day Wednesday in the NBA labor case, with another bargaining session featuring only the heaviest hitters and activity in the league's federal lawsuit against the players, as well.
Former NBA star Magic Johnson is asking a judge for "mercy" and no prison for college teammate Jay Vincent, who is facing years behind bars for fraud.
Don't look now, but the pace of the NBA's labor negotiation talks appears to be finally, mercifully, picking up.
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