[BothTeamsPlayedHardParticipant]

http://sheridanhoops.com/

NE W YORK — NBA owners and players have agreed to resume collective bargaining discussions at 6 p.m. EDT tonight at an undisclosed location.

The news was first reported by Howard Beck of the New York Times, and SheridanHoops has learned that the owners have dropped their precondition that the players agree to a 50-50 split of revenues before resuming discussions.

Union director Billy Hunter had been scheduled to fly to Los Angeles tonight to brief a group of players on the status of negotiations, but that plane ticket has been canceled.

commissioner David Stern has said an agreement needs to be reached by Monday in order to save the Nov. 1 start of the regular season.

[IndianaBasketballParticipant]

Sounds good.

I’ll be optimistic and say I hope a deal gets done by tomorrow, but I doubt it.

[Bmore_DCParticipant]

im starting to have some hope

[omphalosParticipant]

This is a good sign, but I’ve been burned by these good signs too many times now to really start to hope we’ll have a legitimate NBA season.

If the owners have backed down on the 50-50 split the onus is on the players to sort this out now.

[llperez]

the way i interpret this is that the owners are not backing off the 50/50 split, just that they will continue to negotiate even without the players agreeing to it beforehand after previously stating they would only negotiate with the players if they first agreed to a 50/50 split.

[omphalosParticipant]

You might be right there, perhaps I was being optimistic in my interpretation after all. I’m in Australia, so I get my timezones confused, does anyone know if the meeting has started/finished yet?

[IndianaBasketballParticipant]

The players have money to split between over 400 players and the owners have just 32 of them to split between… For some reason 50-50 just doesn’t seem fair to me because of that lol.

[HitsterParticipant]

The numbers are getting closer now it was 43:57 in favour of the players, the owners wanted well over 50% and the players offered 54:46 I seem to recall.

Personally I could see a 51:49 deal in the player’s favour perhaps being the magical figure, Billy Hunter keeps over 50% of revenues for the players and David Stern has got 6% back for the owners.

[aamir543Participant]

I don’t understand why they can’t get some sort of 52.5%-53.5% deal done. The owners would still be gaining almost about 5 percent, and the players might be happy with the fact that they are getting more than 50-50.

Plus I read somewhere that the old deal had the revenue starting from 53%, then working it’s way up to 57%. Can’t they even work out a 52%-53.5% or somthing like that to make everyone happy.

And what I want to know is whether they are willing to compromise. If the owners are willing to stay with the same soft cap, can’t they work out a 50-50 deal with that? I know it’s not fair, but someone has to sacrifice somthing achieve the mission, which is to start the season on time, or at all. 

[river09Participant]

 stubbornness.. it is the american way.. 

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