NBA fans might know by the end of the weekend if the regular season will start on time November 1, with team owners and locked-out players gathering in New York for crucial talks aimed at a new labor deal.
Deputy commissioner Adam Silver told reporters this week that the league is âgetting very closeâ to having to delay the regular season if significant progress isnât made in this weekendâs talks, which began Friday.
Commissioner David Stern may have gone further, warning Wednesday of âenormous consequencesâ if progress isnât made.
âThen it wonât be a question of just starting the season on time, it will be a lot at risk from the absence of progress,â he said.
The ownersâ labor relations committee and a playersâ committee â joined by some stars who arenât on the playersâ panel, such as LeBron James - were meeting Friday, and could meet Saturday and Sunday, according to NBA.com.
Team owners have locked out their players since July, when the last collective bargaining agreement â a contract between the teams and the players union which outlines the rules of the playersâ pay â expired. One key issue has been the ownersâ demand for a hard salary cap, driven in part by claims that 22 of 30 teams lost money last season.
SI.com: One group of owners holds key to ending lockout
The lack of a deal prompted the league to postpone training camps that were supposed to start next week, and cancel 43 preseason games that were supposed to be played October 9-15.
NBA.com writer Steve Aschburner has noted that regular season games wouldnât happen immediately after a handshake agreement. The deal would need to be ratified, and a free-agency period would need to be squeezed in, not to mention preseason games.
Asked on Wednesday whether the league could start a season without preseason games, Stern said he wouldnât âdeal with hypotheticals.â
âIâm focused on (getting) the two committees in and ⊠whether they can either have a season or not have a season. And thatâs whatâs at risk this weekend,â Stern said.
Enjoy your money from sports while it lasts barbarians. With the way the economy is going, in a few of years, no one is going to care about basketball.
I'd argue that they'd care even more. The sport likely will make less money, but people will want an escape from their troubles. With that said, NBA will miss at least a partial season.
YEA!
agreed. People will want to escape? The only thing they will want to escape will be poverty and being unemployed.
who cares?? march madness is the only basketball anyone cares about..
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kobe killed the nba when he and his buddies back doored that lady..
Just don't LeBron make any gaurantees on this. We've already seen how is "gaurantees" work out.
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We do not need a 9.1 unemployment rate at all . We just need to fix our economy.
Why are people so worried about the NBA in today's economy? If most people cannot even make their house payments, these men should not be paid what they are being paid. If the season is starting late because the teams cannot meet the player's salary demands, the team should reduce the player's salaries.