NBA owners, players agree to surprise SUNDAY NIGHT MEETING!

[DuMa]

any one know how many owners has been changed since the last lockout in 1999?

[iamgine]

My crystal ball shows all issues are sorted tonight and we'll have the full season as planned.

[AI3Anthony]

Literally praying. I need basketball.

[All Net]

Let's hope...

[allabouthawks]

Literally praying. I need basketball.

indeed

[AMISTILLILL]

It's going to be a real boring year if there's no season. Coming home after a long day during the week to League Pass rules.

Get it sorted out, NBA.

[MeLO MvP 15]

The way I see it is that I was right, the owners were just doing that 50-50 ultimatum just to try and scare the union one last time. The NBPA was smart enough to realize this and the owners budged on that. This pretty much guarantees to me that we'll see either a 49-51 (players w 51), 48.5-51.5 or a 48-52 BRI agreement today and we'll be getting the season. Don't get me wrong, the players definitely lost this negotiation (they couldn't have won), they're losing like 5-6 percentage points of BRI which is like $1 billion over 6-7 years and will probably see shorter contracts... but it could've been a lot worse.

It's getting done tonight and/or tmrw. The sides have both moved too much in the last 2 weeks to not get this done. With the way they're currently separated, they're only like $80-120 mil apart, meaning losing 2 weeks would end up costing more.

*knock on wood*

[Doranku]

Literally praying. I need basketball.

Seriously..

[AMISTILLILL]

It doesn't sound like they're negotiating the stuff we think they're going to negotiate. According to reports, they're discussing length of contracts and things of that nature. While the legitimacy of those reports is in question, you have to figure they're going to gravitate towards settling this tonight. Now that both parties are finished trying to push one anothers hand, it's zero hour and all posturing and bullshit needs to get cut out.

I'd like to think that both parties realized they stand to lose much more by losing games than they do by perhaps swallowing their pride and sacrificing a bit on both sides.

[nathanjizzle]

obviously theres progress if one side decided to have an impromptu meeting(could be the players agreeing to the deal or very very close to it). This could be it.

[SpecialQue]

If we get a season, you will be surprised at how much man-jam one guy can produce.

[Sarcastic]

any one know how many owners has been changed since the last lockout in 1999?

I think 13.

[Clutch]

Literally praying. I need basketball.

Me too but I'm not optimistic.

Bets on them making little to no progress?

My opinion too.

[cteach111]

well, if it doesn't get done today, then at least you know its the NBPA's fault.

[Clutch]

well, if it doesn't get done today, then at least you know its the NBPA's fault.

Both sides are equally responsible for this shit.

After all,it's the owners who locked players up,not the other way around.