NBA Roundup: Players to huddle on next strategy, Cuban balks at buying Dodgers (Yahoo! Sports)

Members of the NBA Players Association’s executive committee, while trying to maintain a united front, will meet Thursday to plan their next move, according to ESPN.com. The board has scheduled a session in New York amid multiple public denials from executive director Billy… Go to Source

Mavericks’ Cuban looked into buying Dodgers. (Yahoo! Sports)

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban explored buying the Los Angeles Dodgers, but balked at owner Frank McCourt’s asking price of $1 to 1.2 billion, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. “At that price, I wasn’t interested,” Cuban told the paper. Go to Source

No Deal: NBA cancels first two weeks of season (AP)

Two weeks of NBA games are lost. Many more could be in jeopardy. There’s a “gulf” that separates owners and players, and they will have to close it quickly to avoid further damage to the schedule. Sticking to his deadline, Commissioner David Stern wiped out the first two weeks of the season — exactly 100 [...]

Deadline: NBA, players in danger of cancellations (AP)

Derek Fisher left a meeting with NBA officials and, as he has all summer, reported no breakthrough on a new labor deal. Do that again Monday, and the start of the season is expected to be called off. Negotiators for owners and players will meet again Monday, the deadline Commissioner David Stern set for when [...]

Now what? After FIU game, players meet on lockout (PA SportsTicker)

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer Go to Source

AP source: NBA won’t talk without 50-50 deal (AP)

The NBA players’ association wanted a meeting and said the league would grant one — under one condition. Just agree first to a 50-50 split of revenues. Players already rejected that offer once. The league confirmed it wasn’t moving beyond that number but wanted to meet about other issues, and it said the union wasn’t [...]

The 10-man rotation, starring a weakened international exodus (Yahoo! Sports)

With the NBA season in jeopardy, many of the league’s players are thinking about spending the 2011-12 season playing overseas. Because reporting on all of these potential transactions are rife with peril, we thought a link dump was due. All … Continue reading → Go to Source

NBA’s labor fight approaches its biggest deadline (AP)

NBA owners, losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year, wanted an overhaul of the financial system to ensure themselves a chance to profit. Players, believing they were the driving force behind record TV ratings and revenues, wanted to keep what they felt they deserved. Now, negotiations that have lasted nearly two years need to [...]

NBA labour fight approaches biggest deadline (The Canadian Press)

NEW YORK, N.Y. – NBA owners, losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year, wanted an overhaul of the financial system to ensure themselves a chance to profit. Go to Source

Del Harris replaces Lieberman as coach of Legends (AP)

Longtime NBA coach Del Harris is the new coach of the Texas Legends in the NBDL. The 74-year-old Harris was general manager of the Mavericks’ D-League affiliate in its inaugural season last year. He will keep that job, too. Nancy Lieberman coached the team last season, becoming the first woman to coach men in a [...]

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