November 10th, 2011 
Russ Loede 
Posted in The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association negotiated Wednesday for eight hours past the league’s stated 5 p.m. ET deadline for a deal and made sufficient-enough progress to schedule another round of talks for noon ET, Thursday. Officials on both sides spoke modestly about what was achieved during a session that lasted 12 hours [...]
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Sources: Players, Owners hold meeting at 1 ET
A meeting Wednesday between the NBA’s owners and its locked-out players is scheduled for 1 p.m. ET in New York, sources told ESPN The Magazine’s Chris Broussard. Logistics for the meeting currently are being worked out. The NBA Players Association rejected the league’s latest labor proposal Tuesday but had asked for one more bargaining session [...]
Players union rejects Stern, owners’ latest offer
UPDATE: Sources said 16 teams would take the current deal on the table. NEW YORK — NBA players made it clear Tuesday: No deal. No fear of commissioner David Stern’s ultimatum, either. “The current offer on the table from the NBA is one that we cannot accept,” players’ association president Derek Fisher said. Instead, the [...]
Kobe Bryant: “We’re too close to getting a deal done”
Is a deal to end the NBA lockout getting closer to completion? An ownership source told Yahoo Sports on Monday night, “If there were a couple of tweaks needed around the edges – not fundamental deal points – I believe there could be a deal if everything else is agreed upon. But there needs to [...]
