NBA Lockout News

[Jay520]

Billy Hunter expects court mediation

November 22, 2011, 9:11 PM ET

NEW YORK -- Union executive director Billy Hunter said Tuesday he expected that a Minnesota magistrate judge would mediate the players' lawsuit against the NBA, as the court did in the NFL's labor dispute.

"What may very well be is the judge there directs the magistrate, as they did in the NFLPA case, to host a settlement conference, and that could possibly occur as early as next week," Hunter said.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/72...layers-lawsuit

[Jay520]

Sources: Sides hope to resolve lawsuits

November 23, 2011, 7:54 PM ET

The sides in the NBA labor dispute, which reached its 146th day Wednesday, have re-opened negotiations to make one last run at trying to start the season on Christmas Day.

The two sides agreed Monday to resume talks for the first time in nearly two weeks, according to sources close to the situation, with discussions commencing Tuesday and continuing Wednesday aimed at resolving lawsuits recently filed by the players. Talks are expected to resume Friday after a break for Thanksgiving, with almost no wiggle room left to get a deal done in time for Christmas.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/72...ts-sources-say

[adadas101]

Man I hope there will be a season, this is just hurting everyone at this point.

[spuds1961]

Man I hope there will be a season, this is just hurting everyone at this point.

They'll get it settled on Friday,too many dollar signs to be lost by both parties.

[shaqattak]

They'll get it settled on Friday,too many dollar signs to be lost by both parties.

I agree, it's now or never for this season. They will either do it or there will be no season so I guess we'll know by this weekend.

[adadas101]

They'll get it settled on Friday,too many dollar signs to be lost by both parties.

I sure hope so.

[Bas]

Finally we have a season startin on 25th of dec

[aOvKeCn]

Finally we have a season startin on 25th of dec

Hopefully, but they still have to get a vote approval from the owners/players.

[RGM81]

Tentative agreement reached: http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/26/sport/nba-deal/index.html

"We've reached a tentative understanding that is subject to a variety of approvals ... we're optimistic that will all come to pass and that the NBA season will begin on December 25 -- Christmas Day -- a tripleheader," NBA Commissioner David Stern said Saturday. He did not detail who would play in the triple header, but said it's possible that 66 games will be played this season.
Derrick Fisher, president of the National Basketball Players Association, acknowledged the patience NBA fans during the 149-day lockout.
"Our fans and the support from the people and (their) patience through a large part of this process -- that's where a lot of this credit goes to, Fisher said. "The efforts that have been made have been largely with them in mind."
But more work lies ahead.
"What we have to do is obviously sit down with the litigants because it has to be solved in the context of litigation," Billy Hunter, executive director of the National Basketball Players Association, said in an early morning press conference with Stern.
Hunter declined to discuss specifics of the tentative deal, but said he and others plan to meet with lawyers later Saturday. He estimated a resolution could come in three days to a week.
Stern said he expects the labor relations committee and board of governors to endorse the tentative agreement and that a collective bargaining agreement would arise from the deal.

[spuds1961]

To only lose 16 games from the season isn't all that bad,I knew they would settle as with that much money to be lost it's better to get something instead of cancel a whole season.