Roughly 48 hours afterreports surfacedthat the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association would not meet in advance of Monday's deadline to save the start of the 2011-2012 regular season, representatives from both sides met for more than five hours at a New York City hotel on Sunday night.Ken BergerofCBSSports.comreportsthat NBA commissioner David Stern offered no comment following the talks, which ended shortly before midnight local time. ------------------------ Stern: "We don't have any comment at all, other than we are breaking for the night and reconvening tomorrow afternoon." Stern said the no-comment was by mutual agreement with the players. ------------------------Howard BeckofThe New York Timesreportsthat NBPA president Derek Fisher would not say that there had been definitive progress. ------------------------ Fisher says not necessarily any closer to deal now than when night began, but back at it tomorrow. ------------------------Chris MannixofSI.comreportsthat the top issue -- the revenue split between the owners and the players -- was not discussed. ------------------------ There was NO discussion of split of the BRI at Sunday night's meeting, according to a source briefed on the talks. System [issues] only. ------------------------ Before the meeting ended,Adrian WojnarowskiofYahoo! Sportsreported.... ------------------------ A league source briefed on labor meeting within past two hours tells Y!: "No progress yet." ------------------------ Wojnarowskialso reportedthat Fisher said that a NBPA meeting that was previously scheduled for Monday in Los Angeles "will be rescheduled" so that talks between the union and the NBA can resume at 2 p.m. Eastern in New York City. Monday waspreviously setby Stern as the deadline for the cancellation of the first two weeks of the regular season (Nov. 1-14). -- Ben Golliver | benjamin.golliver@gmail.com |Twitter