By Chris Sheridan NEW YORK — “It demonstrates the potential for more movement on our part.” Those words came out of the mouth of NBA deputy commissioner Adam Silver on Tuesday after the owners offered the players a 50-50 split of revenues. So although some are writing that the players will never get an offer like that again, I’ll take the word of Silver over the word of a fellow blogissist. There is a fair chance there will be contact between the league office and the
Will the season start on time, Nov. 1?
By Chris Sheridan Those of you who have been reading this site regularly know my answer — yes. But everybody has an opinion, and I encourage you to vote in the poll on the top right side of this page. After you vote, you will see the percentage results for “yes” and “no.”
Bernucca column: Top 20 free agents
By Chris Bernucca We all remember last year’s free agency extravapalooza – LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh heating up South Beach, Amar’e Stoudemire making the Knicks relevant, Dirk Nowitzki and Paul Pierce making career commitments to their teams and Joe Johnson landing the biggest contract of them all. Next year could be a quality sequel, with a star-studded cast that includes Dwight Howard, Chris Paul, Deron Williams, Ray Allen, Jason Terry, possibly Jameer Nelson and Gerald Wallace, and oldies but goodies Kevin Garnett, Tim Duncan and Steve
Overseas updates: Deron Williams, Kobe Bryant, Andrew Bogut, Tony Parker
Spanning the globe to bring you the latest on NBA players who are, who may or who may not be playing overseas this season (the drop dead date of Monday seems such a long way away, eh?) From Jake Appleman of The New York Times in Mons, Belgium: “Deron Williams, the Nets’ point guard, was here Tuesday night with his teammates on Besiktas Milangaz, a professional team from Istanbul playing a game in the Eurocup, a second-tier intercontinental competition. Perhaps Williams wished he had
Podcast: More on lockout
This is probably the longest podcast I have ever done. Thanks to Jacob Noble of TheProBasketballTalk.com for having me on. We recorded it right before the meetings broke yesterday. Jump to the 21:00 mark for when I join the show.
Sorting through the spin: Progress was made in NBA labor talks
csprtContainer(); By Chris Sheridan NEW YORK — At the start of the day, the score was Players: 54; Owners 46. At the end of the day, after a doomsday-like declaration from Billy Hunter that there might not be any more bargaining sessions or a month or two, then a pronouncement from David Stern that Monday was the deadline for making a deal or losing the start of the regular season, the score had changed. It is now Players: 53, Owners 50, in terms of the
Lockout talks have ended for the day, maybe longer – UPDATED
By Chris Sheridan NEW YORK — Now from the commisioner’s press conference, so I am copying and pasting my tweets to get this out in one centralized location. More coming later. sheridanhoopsChris Sheridan Stern adamant that a 50-50 concept (not a formal offer) was brought to the players, who rejected it. Formal offer was at 47 percent. 5 minutes ago sheridanhoopsChris Sheridan Stern now talking, said owners informally offered 50-50 split after formally offering 47 percent. Said players responded by leaving. 15 minutes ago sheridanhoopsChris Sheridan More Kobe on Italy:
If the lockout is over, the scoop goes to …
@MettaWorldPeace Metta WorldPeace Yay No lock out 1 hour ago via Echofon Although this later tweet shows he was messin’ with folks: @MettaWorldPeace Metta WorldPeace I had alot of people fooled. Just like media. See yal should listen to ur parents. Not media. Believe in yourself. Not others Lol 7 minutes ago via Echofon