Multiple reports came out Friday afternoon that the National Basketball Association and the National Basketball Players Association will not meet in advance of Monday's deadline for cancelling the first two weeks of the 2011-2012 regular season.Ken BergerofCBSSports.comhas thisreport. ----------------------- According to the union source, the league would agree to a meeting Monday -- the deadline set by commissioner David Stern for canceling the first two weeks of regular season games -- only if the players agreed beforehand to accept the NBA's offer of a 50-50 revenue split. The union declined, the source said. -----------------------Adrian WojnarowskiofYahoo! Sportswriteson Twitter... ----------------------- Union source says: "This just confirms what we suspected all along: The NBA was never serious about negotiating until guys missed checks." When Stern plans to cancel the first two weeks of regular season Monday, Billy Hunter will be in LA at NBPA meeting for West Coast players. As another union source just told Y!, "If the league wants to meet with us Monday, they'll have to get their asses out to LA." -----------------------Chris BroussardofESPN.comalso reportsthat the two sides decided not to meet after a disagreement over the pre-condition.Howard BeckofThe New York Timesreportsthat NBA deputy commissioner Adam Silver said the NBA would have agreed to negotiate other system issues but refused to negotiate past a 50/50 BRI split.Earlier this week, NBPA executive director Blly Hunter said the next meetings could be "a month or two months" away, however there had been hope that the two sides would convene prior to Monday's deadline. -- Ben Golliver | benjamin.golliver@gmail.com |Twitter