Lockout News Thread

[RipCity32]

NBA management believes negotiations with the players changed when Kevin Garnett entered the negotiating room on Oct. 4.

Sources say Garnett was 'defiant, determined and downright ornery.'

As one league official said, “We were making progress, until Garnett [expletive] everything up.”

Regardless of how long the lockout lasts, it will be the players and not the owners that bring the NBA positive publicity again after the labor dispute is settled.

"We can’t have completely poisoned waters here when this is over,” one front-office executive said. “Stern gets that, but I’m not sure all of our owners do. We have to have these guys on board, or where are we as a league?”

 

[.infamous]

smh at garnett. what a bitch

 

[Mexi]

rofl
i already hated his ass

 

[DJT]

LOL Garnett is such a punk.

They should tell him to retire and sit his butt down.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

That news isn't the least bit surprising, Garnett has always been a giant ass.

 

[elcheato]

The two sides just finished a 16 hour meeting. Have to assume they made some progress..

 

[RipCity32]

Assuming they met on the east coast, I don't see why else they'd be discussing this late into the night.
Certainly does sound like progress was made.

 

[elcheato]

They also scheduled to resume the talks at 10 AM later today so something had to be going on.

 

[RipCity32]

I'm getting excited.
Hopefully for a good reason.

Don't let me down, NBA.

 

[DJT]

From what I've heard on twitter, they only made progress on "small issues, still not close to a deal, hard to see where this is all going."

 

[jonathanlambert33]

I read earlier this morning that they made little to no progress at all.

 

[Mexi]

we'll have a season soon enough

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-wojnarowski_nba_labor_talks_101911

made progress on revenue sharing and agreed on a new MLE

 

[Pugz]

two steps forward, tomorrow we'll be two steps backwards.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

Yeah I still feel like this is far from being settled.

 

[Yankees2772]

There will be an NBA season in (fall) 2012 or maybe 2013, don't worry.

 

[DJT]

This is getting ridiculous. I can understand why the owners didn't want to talk anymore if they couldn't agree on the revenue split.

I just hope its the players who cave, and not the owners.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

Say bye bye to more of the season:

By the end of the evening, or at least by a break in the he said-he said on the night that the NBA went dark again in its failed attempts to find a labor compromise and end the costly, harmful, 112-day lockout, one image lingered: Portland billionaire Paul Allen as an unexpected presence in Thursday's bargaining session, sitting there quietly as the owners' alleged muscle.

Hopes of a breakthrough turned inside-out, threatening not only more games from the 2011-12 schedule but the entire season itself. Both sides accused the other of digging in on its share of about $4 billion in annual revenue and -- over a difference of 2.5 percent, or about $100 million per year -- talks broke off with no future meetings scheduled.

As for that federal mediator, George Cohen, who arrived toting optimism about reason and conciliation, he was sent packing back to Washington.

That left the NBA days away from canceling games beyond the first two weeks (Nov. 1-14) already lost, with each month forfeited to this labor dispute costing them all a combined $800 million a month.

Talks have broken off and they're taking a break from negotiations. No meetings scheduled for the future.

 

[DJT]

It sounds like they all might take a little break and let the steam die down, which might not necessarily be a bad thing.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

I don't think taking a break is going to really do anything rather than lose them time.

 

[DJT]

But if they keep meeting while they are all pissed of at each other, ain't nothing gonna happen anyways.