NBA专员David Sternannounced that the league would be cancelling the first two weeks of its regular season after seven hours of negotiations with the National Basketball Players Association on Monday failed to produce a new collective bargaining agreement. Here's the press release. ----------------------- NBA CANCELS FIRST TWO WEEKS OF REGULAR SEASON NEW YORK, October 10, 2011--The NBA announced today that it has canceled the first two weeks of the 2011-12 regular season because a new collective bargaining agreement has not been reached with the National Basketball Players Association. This cancellation includes all games originally scheduled to be played through November 14. "Despite extensive efforts, we have not been able to reach a new agreement with the players’ union that allows all 30 teams to be able to compete for a championship while fairly compensating our players," NBA Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver said. Refunds plus interest are available for all NBA season-ticket holders for all preseason and regular-season games that are canceled. ----------------------- The cancellation means that the Portland Trail Blazers will lose a Nov. 3 home game against the Denver Nuggets, a Nov. 4 away game against the Los Angeles Clippers, a Nov. 6 away game against the Phoenix Suns, a Nov. 9 away game against the Denver Nuggets, a Nov. 10 home game against the San Antonio Spurs, a Nov. 12 home game against the Detroit Pistons and a Nov. 14 home game against the Philadelphia 76ers. The Blazers are now left with just 75 games on their schedule. Thee two sides will remain in communication, Stern told reporters in New York on Monday, but no further talks have been scheduled yet. Here'sa radio hit关于the NBA lockout that I did on Monday night with Washington D.C.'sWTOP. -- Ben Golliver | benjamin.golliver@gmail.com |Twitter
BreakingNews NBA Commissioner David Stern cancels the firsttwo weeks of the season - AP
周一，全国篮球运动员协会德里克·费舍尔德里克·费舍尔（Derek Fisher）在Twitter上推出了一场集中在“让我们玩”和“团结联合”的短语中的一个竞选活动。显然，两倍的目标是在NBA所有者持续的锁定期间向粉丝吸引粉丝，并鼓励起义团结。波特兰径开拓者拉塞尔林林野山山脉（here），Wesley Matthews（here), Nolan Smith (here), Patty Mills (here) and Armon Johnson (here) all tweeted in support of the campaign, which became a national trending topic. The strategy followed in the footsteps of the National Football League's players, who ran a similar campaign during their labor negotiations with the NFL earlier this year. -- Ben Golliver | benjamin.golliver@gmail.com |Twitter
Hey guys, long time lurker around here but I wrote an editorial on how I feel about this lock out business. I hope you all enjoy and please comment, recommend and like on facebook. Go Blazers!...someday.
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
In aHoopsHype.comtranslation归功于an interviewwithMarca.com, former Portland Trail Blazers guard Rudy Fernandez opens up about his time in Portland. -------------------------Did you read the interview where Mark Cuban said that you joining the Mavs was a good move?鲁迪费尔南德斯:I saw that one, but owners and coaches are not always on the same page. I remember Blazers owner Paul Allen liked my game very much, but at the end it was Nate McMillan who decided if I could play or not. I don't care what is said about me, even if it's good things, if at the end I don't play.If you start playing with Real Madrid and things go well and then you have to leave for Dallas, wouldn't it bother you?鲁迪费尔南德斯:Of course. I'm playing with a team and I would love to stay here, but I have to live the Dallas experience because all of what they have done with the trade and because I would like to live another NBA experience apart from the Blazers' one. ------------------------- Fernandezmade his debutfor Real Madrid against Fuenlabrada Madrid, scoring 12 points and grabbing four rebounds in a winning effort. -- Ben Golliver | benjamin.golliver@gmail.com |Twitter
