June 29, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors
We all know that the NBA’s current collective bargaining agreement expires tomorrow at midnight unless a deal can be met beforehand. There’s one more meeting scheduled tomorrow, in attempt to avoid that.
With the clock ticking down, NBA owners and their representatives are still hoping for a last-second miracle, but are preparing for a worst-case outcome that could produce the league’s first labor lockout in 13 years.
The two sides have agreed to meet one last time Thursday in New York before the Thursday midnight deadline when the collective bargaining agreement expires.
While there was no “lockout vote” per se taken at Tuesday’s Board of Governors meeting at the Hilton Anatole, NBA commissioner David Stern and deputy commissioner Adam Silver would not rule out the possibility of a shutdown.
Read more about the potential lockout on NBA.com.
