Resuming CBA talks

**Pistons < Spurs** · 10-10-2011

WojYahooNBA Adrian Wojnarowski
Meeting is over.

ChrisMannixSI Chris Mannix

Glen Taylor just emerged. Asked him if there was good news. Said, "Probably not."

**Pistons < Spurs** · 10-10-2011

kBergCBS Ken Berger
Stern: I'm sorry to report ... that the first 2 wks of the season have been canceled.

**Pistons < Spurs** · 10-10-2011

WojYahooNBA Adrian Wojnarowski
Stern: "we remain very, very apart on all issues."

**baseline bum** · 10-10-2011

I don't see Stern allowing ads on the jerseys. He already killed Memphis naming their team after FedEx a few years ago.

**baseline bum** · 10-10-2011

Expecting NBA basketball this calendar year is pretty delusional. , even this season might be.

**DPG21920** · 10-10-2011

Before all this started I had my pointless but very well researched scale of the chance of a season:

5% Full Season, 10% Half Season & 85% No Season

**objective** · 10-10-2011

waiting for the obligatory Sheridan tweet about how there's nothing to worry about and the season will start on time for all 82 games.

**DPG21920** · 10-10-2011

I'm laughing right now. It feels weird like laughing when someone gets hurt in a funny way but you don't realize that they are "really hurt", but I'm laughing at the moment because of this.

**Dex** · 10-10-2011

This is what these news reports feels like:

I'm gonna say what's on all of our minds: all those greedy assholes.

**DPG21920** · 10-10-2011

**baseline bum** · 10-10-2011

^^^ 1/10 tbh

**DPG21920** · 10-10-2011

**MaNu4Tres** · 10-10-2011

**weebo** · 10-10-2011

Just be done with it and cancel the whole season. As much as I love NBA basketball, the game won't die. All these greedy assholes can lose all their millions and billions for all i care. 'em.

**DJ Mbenga** · 10-10-2011

i think sarver had a quote earlier . im gonna paraprhase. my involvement in the negotiations will come and its not what you have heard.
judging what happened today, huge lie.

**Bruno** · 10-12-2011

http://eye-on-basketball.blogs.cbssp...48484/32680992

NBA labor talks are about to get an injection of Uncle Sam.

National Basketball Players Association executive director Billy Hunter told WFAN radio in New York on Wednesday that the NBA and its players union will continue talks with the help of a federal mediator next week.

I don't know how much this "federal mediator" will help but you had to take every single good news in this bad period. At least both side will stay in touch instead of playing a waiting game.

**DPG21920** · 10-12-2011

So they are meeting today?

**timtonymanu** · 10-12-2011

Originally Posted by DPG21920

So they are meeting today?

They are gonna meet next Monday.

**Dex** · 10-12-2011

More information on the mediator here:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/bal...medium=twitter

**xellos88330** · 10-12-2011

Clever move by the players.

**Bruno** · 10-13-2011

What sucks with this whole mediator is that he only comes now, that is to say about after 100 days of lockout and while some regular season games have been canceled.

This mediator better hurry to catch up the whole story and push sides to reach a deal. It's an emergency situation. When I see that half a week has still been lost just to organize the first meeting, I don't feel that emergency.

Each day lost is $25M less generated, low salary workers not being paid and NBA popularity sinking. Stakes are so huge that way more efforts should be put in reaching an agreement.

**Dex** · 10-13-2011

Originally Posted by Bruno

What sucks with this whole mediator is that he only comes now, that is to say about after 100 days of lockout and while some regular season games have been canceled.

This mediator better hurry to catch up the whole story and push sides to reach a deal. It's an emergency situation. When I see that half a week has still been lost just to organize the first meeting, I don't feel that emergency.

Each day lost is $25M less generated, low salary workers not being paid and NBA popularity sinking. Stakes are so huge that way more efforts should be put in reaching an agreement.

That's the frustrating thing about this whole deal. Both sides knew this issue was looming for years. And yet, rather than sort it out like adults, they just waltzed into lockout mode, then took a goddamn summer vacation while touching bases every now and then for a pissing contest.

It seems like talks didn't even get serious until this past weekend, when the first two weeks of the season were already in jeopardy. Rather than lock themselves in a room and forcing each other to figure out, they'd rather play these stupid PR games and try to wait each other out and see which side will lose more money before they blink first. Meanwhile, the fans and the waged employees get the screw.

And even after all this time, they're STILL "far apart on virtually all issues"? What the are they doing at these meetings, just picking their noses? Something I read recently put things in perspective: The lockout has now lasted 104 days. Franklin Roosevelt helped solve the Great Depression and turn around the country in just 100 days.

If these guys would actually sit and negotiate instead of just posturing and trying to drain the other sides pockets, this thing would be solved already. Hopefully this mediator will help to achieve that, because the way the two sides are handling things right now, this lockout will never be over.

**Giuseppe** · 10-13-2011

Originally Posted by Dex

Franklin Roosevelt helped solve the Great Depression and turn around the country in just 100 days.

Don't ferget he had Hitler eggin' him on.

tee, hee.

**ChuckD** · 10-13-2011

Originally Posted by Giuseppe

Don't ferget he had Hitler eggin' him on.

tee, hee.

Hitler wasn't even in power in 1932 when FDR was elected.

**Giuseppe** · 10-13-2011

^When FDR solved the Great Depression Hitler helped him.

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