As you'd expect, late Friday NBA lockout flarfnoogle has produced additional whizzamarole. Union sources told numerous reporters late Friday that the league had refused a players' request to meet on or by Monday to get this stoppage done. The reason: the players' union told the media that the NBA had demanded that as a condition for the meeting, players had to accept a 50-50 split. So, no meeting. (Or at least the threat of no meeting.)
But NBA deputy commissioner Adam Silver has a different way of telling it, and he did so on the record with the New York Times' Howard Beck:
What we told the union was that we were not prepared to negotiate over the B.R.I. split beyond the 50-50 concept that had already been discussed," Silver said, referring to the N.B.A.'s acronym for basketball-related income.
Silver added, however, that the league was "prepared to continue negotiating over the many other issues that remain open" - such as the salary-cap system, the luxury tax and the length of contracts.
If either side is intractable on the revenue split -- the union is at 53-47 -- then there really is no reason to negotiate. But given the relatively small gap in between the two sides and the stakes, with Monday signifying the last day to get a deal done that will preserve an 82-game schedule, there is really no reason for either side to be intractable.
Stay tuned. I see more whizzamarole on the way.
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At this point, when a deal is being made
just take your time with it. No need to rush through this because both sides have screwed themselves in terms of trying to start the season on time. It isn’t.
by thewiz06 on Oct 7, 2011 11:14 PM EDT reply actions
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