Nba tentative agreement!!

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The NBA and the Players Association have reached a tentative agreement to end the five-month old lockout and start the season on December 25, sources told Yahoo! Sports.

After 16 hours of negotiations Friday night, the two sides reached a handshake agreement a little after 3 a.m., a source said.

Both sides must still get final vote approval from all owners and players to finalize the agreement

NBA Commissioner David Stern is holding a joint news conference with Players Association executive director Billy Hunter and Players Association president Derek Fisher(notes) at 3:40 AM in New York.

Free agency and training camps set to start simultaneously on Dec. 9, Stern says.
 
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Not to be captain raincloud here but the player union still has to ratify the deal, which while certainly likely is not a certainity.
 
Kings basketball is back!!!

Words can't described how happy I am all this crap is finally over. Let's see what Jimmer/Reke/Cousins can do.
 
Tetsujin said:
Not to be captain raincloud here but the player union still has to ratify the deal, which while certainly likely is not a certainity.
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If Fisher and Hunter say sign on the dotted line, the players will sign on the dotted line. Waiting for the press conference, but I'm guessing that Fisher and Hunter will be on board - I believe both were at the meetings.
 
Capt. Factorial said:
If Fisher and Hunter say sign on the dotted line, the players will sign on the dotted line. Waiting for the press conference, but I'm guessing that Fisher and Hunter will be on board - I believe both were at the meetings.
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Until the lights go back on at Arco Arena, I'm going to be cautiously optimistic at best.
 
Best Christmas present ever?? Even better is that I can be in NorCal during the holidays and hopefully catch a game at Arco.


I remember hearing a wild rumor circulating that Stern wanted to push back the season start and still have a 70 game season to experiment with having a playoffs in mid-summer (July-ish) on the theory that it might get better ratings, and the timing of this agreement (if true) seems to line up pretty well with that
 
captain bill said:
I remember hearing a wild rumor circulating that Stern wanted to push back the season start and still have a 70 game season to experiment with having a playoffs in mid-summer (July-ish) on the theory that it might get better ratings, and the timing of this agreement (if true) seems to line up pretty well with that
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They are saying 66 game season
 
11/26/11 3:16 A.M. EST Associated Press (AP) BREAKING NEWS: "NBA owners, players reach tentative deal to end lockout." The word tentative tells me it's just that. Subject to all of the NBA owners signing off - only one was represented in tonights meetings along with Stern and Silver. Players Fisher and Evans along with Hunter and his associates were in the meeting - they now have to turn it over to the player reps to get the players to vote in favor of the deal. The fact that there's no longer a union seems like maybe it's more of a formality than a vote of "certain percentage."
 
NBA Union Rep Billy Hunter: Once we present it (to players), we're confident they will support it.
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Stern: We expect our Labor Relations Committee to endorse this tentative agreement ... we expect a CBA will arise out of this deal.
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Both sides believe their guys are on board.
 
NBAtv reporting b-list items (including possible draft change to 2 years of college) to be talked over tomorrow. Nobody likes more negotiation, but nobody has ever pointed to b-list issues as deal breakers. A deal is there and I guess they'll pick and choose on the b-listers.
 
@Chris_Broussard Chris Broussard
Players accepted 49-51 band, sources say..b-list issues (draft, sge limit, drug testing) to be discussed tomorrow
 
Silver "I think it will largely prevent the high paying teams from competing in the free agent market as they have in the past. "

That, is great to hear.
 
PurpleHaze said:
11/26/11 3:16 A.M. EST Associated Press (AP) BREAKING NEWS: "NBA owners, players reach tentative deal to end lockout." The word tentative tells me it's just that. Subject to all of the NBA owners signing off - only one was represented in tonights meetings along with Stern and Silver. Players Fisher and Evans along with Hunter and his associates were in the meeting - they now have to turn it over to the player reps to get the players to vote in favor of the deal. The fact that there's no longer a union seems like maybe it's more of a formality than a vote of "certain percentage."
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Because there's no longer a uniuon part of these deals is always the union gets to magically come back, which the NBA will agree to, and its hard to imagine this not being an all vote too. No more players rep monopoly nonsense. With no union, there are no players reps now.
 
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