Topic: David Stern
The NBA-owned New Orleans Hornets have finally reached an agreement to trade all-star Chris Paul, six days after the league vetoed a trade that would have seen Paul join the Los Angeles Lakers.On Wednesday, the Hornets announced they had dealt guard Paul ...
NBA commissioner David Stern defended his decision to stop the New Orleans Hornets from trading Chris Paul to the Los Angeles Lakers in a three-team swap on Friday as critics ripped the move.The Hornets, who are owned by the league as they ...
A tentative agreement to end the NBA's crippling lockout and save the season will have owners and players scrambling to get the details in place in time for a star-studded Christmas tip-off."There is a lot of work to be done in a ...
NBA owners and players reached a tentative deal Saturday to end a lockout that had thrown the whole basketball season into jeopardy, planning to begin a shortened schedule on Christmas Day.NBA commissioner David Stern emerged from a 15-hour meeting early Saturday morning ...
The NBA lockout now shifts to the American courts after the players union decided it was time to "push back" and reject the latest offer from the owners.In a high-stakes game, with the 2011-12 NBA season hanging in the balance, the players ...
NBA owners and players talked for nearly 12 hours and will meet again on Thursday, but neither side sounded optimistic of a breakthrough in the bid to get the season started.League commissioner David Stern, who said Sunday that the players had until ...
(Reuters) - NBA commissioner David Stern has set a deadline of 5:00 p.m. EST Wednesday for players to accept his latest offer -- or get a worse deal on the table - but the players union say they will not back down ...
Talks between NBA players and owners broke down, raising the prospect that more games will be cancelled after the two sides failed to resolve financial differences.Thirty hours of negotiations over the past three days, under the eye of federal mediator George Cohen, ...
If NBA club owners and players are going to make a breakthrough on Thursday in talks over halting a lockout that began July 1, they will have to do so with league commissioner David Stern absent.Stern was sent home by his doctor ...
(Reuters) - Mediation talks between National Basketball Association (NBA) owners and players continued unexpectedly Wednesday for a second straight day in New York in a bid to resolve the bitter labor dispute.The two sides met for 16 hours Tuesday with federal mediator ...