The Tuesday, Oct. 18 NBA labor meeting with mediator lasted over 16 hours!

[Applause]

This is what is happening in the meeting:

[Collie]

They've just finished the 7th Harry Potter movie in a marathon.

[GOATofGOATS]

Come on now, it was a 12 hour meeting with a mediator. They had to have gotten something done....right?.....right?

[MichaelCheazley]

^^ They were making progress until Kevin Garnett F***ed everything up. lol

[SpecialQue]

Words With Friends?

Angry Birds?

Twister?

[Delta_Hoop]

^^ They were making progress until Kevin Garnett F***ed everything up. lol

So I've heard.

[Heavincent]

Come on now, it was a 12 hour meeting with a mediator. They had to have gotten something done....right?.....right?

Wrong. It's the NBA we're talking about here.

They're just gonna be like "Sorry guys, we didn't really do anything".

[Collie]

14 hours and counting.

[Delta_Hoop]

Wrong. It's the NBA we're talking about here.

They're just gonna be like "Sorry guys, we didn't really do anything".

Yup. I'm tired of hearing things like that, especially in articles or reports that say "Little to no progress made". How can they talk so damn long and get nowhere? It's just boggles my mind.

[Delta_Hoop]

14 hours and counting.

They're still at it? Wow, David Aldridge said on Twitter that it was almost over like an hour ago. That tweet disappeared though apparently unless I'm going crazy. Another victim of a false alarm.

[MichaelCheazley]

Yup. I'm tired of hearing things like that, especially in articles or reports that say "Little to no progress made". How can they talk so damn long and get nowhere? It's just boggles my mind.

Do you think the 1000 hour kobe/lebron debates get us anywhere? Maybe theyre alot more like ish than we think.

[PacerRaptor]

a mediator will not waste 14 hours of his time if no progress was not being made

[bagelred]

a mediator will not waste 14 hours of his time if no progress was not being made

Apparently, this guy had 17 different sessions with the NFL parties, and couldn't get a deal. So don't be so sure.......

[ukfan22]

a mediator will not waste 14 hours of his time if no progress was not being made

Gotta think that's true.

[PacerRaptor]

NEW YORK (AP) - NBA players and owners met for more than 14 hours with a federal mediator, hoping to deliver the progress Commissioner David Stern says is needed to avoid canceling more games.

The talks started about 10 a.m. Tuesday. Stern sought immediate results in just one day of mediation, saying during interviews last week that proposals could get worse and more games could be lost without a deal.

"If there's a breakthrough, it's going to come on Tuesday,'' he told NBA TV. "And if not, I think that the season is really going to potentially escape from us because we aren't making any progress.''

This was the longest negotiating session since owners locked out players when the old collective bargaining agreement expired at the end of the day June 30.

In another interview, Stern told WFAN radio in New York that his "gut'' was there wouldn't be NBA games on Christmas if the 110th day of the lockout ended without a deal.

Large gaps remain, with both sides seeking 53 percent of basketball revenues and players opposing owners' attempts to significantly change the salary cap system.

George Cohen, who was appointed director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service in 2009, met with the sides individually at their offices Monday before both brought their full bargaining committees to a hotel Tuesday. The union said it wanted to have the whole week set aside for negotiations, but owners have two days of board meetings beginning Wednesday.

Stern wants to be able to bring them a deal. If not, they may have to discuss further cancellations after the first two weeks of the season were already wiped out.

Cohen was present for talks between NFL owners and players for 16 days in February and March before that mediation broke off.

He previously helped broker a deal between Major League Soccer and its players and was lead lawyer for the baseball players' union when it won an injunction against its owners in 1995, ending the 7 1/2-month strike.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...ritethru.0418/

does this mean that the talks are over?