What is CURRENTLY going on in the NBA?

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The title says it all...what is the NBA doing right now?

Days leading to the lockout, all you heard about were the talks between the players and owners etc...but since the lockout i cant find any information on whats going on and how they're planning on solving the problem. Are they still having those talks? Are they making progress?

Does anyone know? or atleast know how they go about resolving this?

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The title says it all...what is the NBA doing right now?

Days leading to the lockout, all you heard about were the talks between the players and owners etc...but since the lockout i cant find any information on whats going on and how they're planning on solving the problem. Are they still having those talks? Are they making progress?

Does anyone know? or atleast know how they go about resolving this?

A good read from HW that relates to your question (essentially the pressure of a deadline has passed):

The NBA and its Players are expected to hold another informal Collective Bargaining session this week, however the odds anything of substance comes out of these meetings is pretty slim mainly because they don't have to.

The problem with a lock out of players having been imposed is it now resets the clock.

Both sides of this dispute were trying aggressively to reach a deal before the July 1st deadline. With no deal in hand and with the hammer of a work stoppage having fallen, the clock resets to a date much further down the calendar.
NBA Training Camps are schedule to open the first week of October, meaning in order for a season to go off unaffected by this, a deal would need to be reached in September, meaning both sides can again posture on a deal without having to make any real progress for at least 70 days.

That's not to say a deal couldn't be reached before September, it is just far more likely that the labor deal that gets done gets done at the 11th hour than early in the process.

The NBA Players' Association says it wants to scrap the existing offers on the table from both sides and craft a new deal together with the Owners.

If that is genuinely what's going to happen, then the process will be starting from square one again, and the NBA lockout will continue for several more months.

The key dates to know:

September 15th (72 days): It will be almost impossible to pull off free agency, training camp and a full preseason if a deal is not reached by September 15th.

October 1st (88 days): It will be impossible to have a full slate of pre-season games if a deal is not in place by October 1st, in fact failing to have a deal by October 1 jeopardizes regular season games.

November 1st (119 days): Failing to reach a deal before November 1st means regular season games are missed and a full 82-game season is lost.

January 6th (185 days): This was the drop dead date in 1999 and should be viewed as the last day to make a deal. A deal in January means no All-Star game and a compressed regular season.

February 1st (211 days): If a deal is not reached by February 1st the entire 2011-2012 season will be lost and the Players will lose $2.1 billion in salaries and benefits

So while labor meetings are a good thing, don't expect a lot to happen on the labor front in the NBA, mainly because it does not have to.

The NBA's Lockout simply buys both sides more time; let's hope they use this time to reach a deal not build further impasses to making a deal.



Read more NBA news and insight: http://www.hoopsworld.com/Story.asp?...#ixzz1RzOTA5Ok

Further to the question of what is going on right now: nothing except talk of franchise sales. That is pretty much the only NBA activity besides the lockout. Via HoopsHype.com:

Comcast-Spectacor is in the final stages of negotiating terms of its sale of the 76ers to a group of investors led by New York billionaire Joshua Harris. Although multiple sources have confirmed that the deal is "not yet done," those same sources confirmed that the sale is in its final stages and that an announcement is expected any time, likely within the next two business days and even as early as Wednesday. Once the two parties have agreed on terms, the sale will go to the NBA's board of governors for approval. Despite the current NBA lockout - there is a moratorium on player movement, and communication between teams and players is barred - the sale of a franchise can still be processed. Philadelphia Inquirer