David Stern has set a Wednesday deadline for the players’ union to accept the league’s 50-50 revenue split offer that comes with a few more system tweaks in the four-month-old NBA lockout saga. No further talks were scheduled after Saturday’s session ended with Stern’s ultimatum. But that could change.
NBA Lockout Talks Could Yield One More Session Before Deadline
Yahoo!‘s Adrian Wojnarowski reports that the two sides are working on putting together one more bargaining session before the deadline. It’s unclear what, if any, conditions the NBA would put on it, given that Stern has presented what essentially makes up an ultimatum, a take-it-or-leave-it offer. Stern said early Sunday and in a letter to union director Billy Hunter published by the New York Times that if players don’t accept the deal on the table, the offer will get demonstrably worse on Thursday.
The two sides are painfully close on the revenue split issue, and the remaining system issues seem relatively minor compared to those that have already been worked out.
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