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After today's meeting, the press conferences will streamed online here: tinyurl.com/4y4v67q
 
Current NBA lockout is the 5th longest work stoppage in US pro sports history. All of the top 5 have happened since 1994.
 
WojYahooNBA


Clearly, the NBA and NBPA made some measure of progress talking quietly over last 48-72 hours leading into bargaining session today in NY.
 
The latest from Sheridan....


A person in frequent contact with ownership told CBSSports.com this week that 51.5 percent is, in fact, the presumed landing spot for the players’ share. According to the source, one owner recently confided to associates that the union’s affinity for “odd numbers” and fact that 51.5 was a logical midpoint between the various “bands” each side has proposed signaled that such a split ultimately would get done. The owners then have to agree among themselves to a revamped revenue-sharing plan to help small-market and low-revenue teams. League executives, team officials and owners participated in a video conference call lasting several hours Tuesday to discuss the latest proposals on how to redistribute revenue. Although one person on the call said there was no consensus and that “a lot of ideas” remained on the table, one executive told CBSSports.com that observers will be “pleasantly surprised” by the commitment big-market owners are willing to make to revenue sharing. Assuming that aspect of the negotiations soon will be finalized, the last base to be covered is perhaps the most difficult of all: changing the distribution of payrolls among teams to achieve what league officials consistently refer to as their goal of “competitive balance.” It’s an ideal that both deputy commissioner Adam Silver and labor relations committee chairman Peter Holt pointed to last week as something the NFL (hard cap) and NHL (flex cap) have achieved. Having been unable to get the NBPA to agree to either concept, league negotiators have spent the past several weeks trying to refine a more punitive luxury-tax system to achieve the same goals.”
 
They really need to end this so HCP can get back to selling peanuts and popcorn at the games.
 
I just hope the owners didn't cave, and the competitive issue wasn't brushed under the rug.
 
This guy keeps it in perspective:

A. Sherrod Blakely: they've done a good job of exchanging ideas/concepts in small group settings. "But selling it to their constituents ... much tougher."
 
Broussard


In talks with sources,There is a bit of optimism about talks. Nothing definitive but hope is in the air
 
Who is better, unnamed sources, or sources close to the situation?
 
I want it to end yesterday but the small market-farm-club system for big markets has to end!
 
Fez Hammersticks said:
I just hope the owners didn't cave, and the competitive issue wasn't brushed under the rug.
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As much as I'd love for HCP to get back to work so I can use the new sex swing I got for Mrs HCP, I too do not want the owners to give in to the competitive ballance to please the greedy players who would be tall hobos if there were no league
 
David Aldridge


No predictions, but guarded optimism from various sources today. Reason? "Reality is setting in," says source inv in talks from beginning.
 
I understand and respect all of your opinions on this. I just have a little different view of it. It would be interesting for all of you to NOT to receive a paycheck 'til a deal is hammered out.
 
Woj

In talking with agents and players, I don't sense a connection between world tour dropouts and a belief that labor deal is imminent.
 
Marc Stein: Source close to @Chris Paul says Paul passed on world tour to instead focus on "getting ready for the season and to spend time with family"

Interesting when you consider CP3 was front and center when the talks broke down last Thursday
 
RoyToy said:
Marc Stein: Source close to @Chris Paul says Paul passed on world tour to instead focus on "getting ready for the season and to spend time with family"

Interesting when you consider CP3 was front and center when the talks broke down last Thursday
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Maybe the "world tour" star players realize how they're hurting their own case and fracturing their own union?
 
PapaG said:
Maybe the "world tour" star players realize how they're hurting their own case and fracturing their own union?
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I was wondering if other players went to those guys and basically said "Hey, what the fuck?"
 
Chris_Broussard Chris Broussard
Source close to negotiations tells me sides "definitely making progress."
 
Marc Berman: According to league source, "progress" beimg made today is only on system issues. Not BRI. It's a start


Sounds like they're at where they were at last week before the "Grim Reaper" shut it down.

Not holding my breath
 
A league source wired into bargaining session tells Y!: "There's a deal to be had if everyone shows a little flexibility."
 
A source in the room tells me he "wouldn't presume anything" regarding reports of progress in today's labor meeting in NYC.
 
According to my source, midgets are shorter than most NBA power forwards. I can vouch for this shit, I have known and trusted my source since college.
 
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