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Holt wanted someone to help spread the floor for the owners' committee.
apparently Pop has made an appearance at the meetings
Holt wanted someone to help spread the floor for the owners' committee.
This is not a time for levity....
While it would suck if a part of the regular season is canceled, I can understand why it is so hard for either side to make the last effort to reach a deal.
Players have still given up a lot and think that it is now up to the owners to make this last effort.
Owners think that they have no reason to make compromise to end the lockout because a lengthy lockout will help them to get an even better deal.
Cancelling some regular seasons games is opening the Pandora's box. Nobody know what will happen after that and how much it will hurt NBA's popularity.
daldridgetnt David Aldridge
One small step up the mountain: source: sides close on mid-level exception agreement. On NBA.com: http://www.nba.com/2011/news/feature...ign/index.html
Alex Kennedy: I just spoke to a source close to the labor talks. "We're getting close," he said. "We're definitely making progress." Twitter
i have been hearing that for the last four weeks.
Great, another reason for this crap to get strung out even longer then it already has.WojYahooNBA Adrian Wojnarowski
Stern could call for "postponement" of 1st two weeks of regular season - not a cancellation - if progress warrants more talks, source says.
Tim Duncan: "Pondering if I should return to work at Apple during the lockout"
Tim Duncan Begins Summer Job At Apple Genius Bar
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SAN ANTONIO—Spurs center Tim Duncan returned to his summer job at the Apple Store Genius Bar Monday, where he provided technical support during his eight-hour shift by diagnosing problems, troubleshooting software issues, and repairing people's computers, iPhones, and iPods. "I can't stress to our customers enough that they really need to make multiple backups of their data," said Duncan, who has worked at the San Pedro Avenue location for the past three summers. "A lot of times we can retrieve files from a crashed hard drive, but you shouldn't rely on that. Also, you can increase the battery life of your laptop if you shut it down when you're transporting it from one place to another." Duncan has also offered to take a shift for fellow Apple Genius David Atwood on Saturday, saying it would be a shame for his coworker to miss Game 3 of the Nuggets-Mavericks Western Conference Semifinals.
WojYahooNBA Adrian Wojnarowski
Labor meeting could be wrapping up.
It would suck for our team, imo. Duncan and Manu would be worn out by the playoffs worse than last year.
Chris Mannix saying that it's "not good news".
The usual "We're still far apart," speech I'm guessing.
KBergCBS Ken Berger
Media chased away from hotel entrance after threat from management to call police. #NBA #lockout
ChrisMannixSI Chris Mannix
Angry hotel guy still complaining about press, even though we're across the street. Calm down, buddy. Calm down.
WojYahooNBA Adrian Wojnarowski
NBA has remained determined in talks today to reconfigure a system that allows for players to accept a 50-50 BRI split. league sources say.
So basically it looks like they are adding sweeteners in other areas for the players in order for the 50/50 split to be closer to "fair"
The union is going to give up 7 points.
I God's.
Keeping a 82 games season while postponing the start of the season by two weeks should be doable. You can end the season one week later and shortening the playoffs by one week with lest rest between games and a first round in 5 games.
Something else the NBA could do is putting adds on jerseys. They've started to do it on practice stuffs but they should also do it on games jersey. This new money should be enough to close the gap between owners and players.
I think that would alienate the out of fans; I don't think too many people would want to buy a San Antonio Fritos Spurs jersey.
Well, sport's jerseys in Europe have add on them and people are buying them without a problem. Once fans will be used to that, they will buy jerseys as much as in the past.
I think shirt sponsorship could work, but only with proper revenue sharing in place. There's no doubt that the Nike Lakers would fetch a lot more dough than the Cleveland BJ's...
I'd be okay with the advertisements on jerseys, as long as they don't replace the team name itself. Having a Visa logo or patch on the jersey wouldn't be so bad...looking like the San Antonio Visa's would be lame.
WojYahooNBA Adrian Wojnarowski
Interesting NY's Dolan in talks today, because hardline owners still resolved that system doesn't allow elite few to spend far north of cap.
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WojYahooNBA Adrian Wojnarowski
Labor meeting has passed six hours here in New York.
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I think hearing an annoying skinny ass black guy MC during timeouts, and advertising through the contests the have is enough advertising for the game.
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