truehoop......... Knee-jerk assessment: Ending talks at a reasonable hour, talking to media separately ... not great signs for a deal.
alanhahn...... Obviously there's no deal because there would be a joint press conference, but nobody expected a deal to be struck today. But progress...
Broussard........ Someone in NBA meetings just told me they made a little progress today but still have a long way to go before a deal
Kevin Garnett, Kobe Bryant, Roger Mason, Matt Bonner, Ben Gordon, Month Evans join Billy Hunter and Derek Fisher at podium
Fisher: We anticipate the rest of preseason cancelled and faced with early part of regular season in jeopardy
Fisher: This is not a game to us. We've been willing to negotiate. Lockout could jeopardize portions if not all of our season.
Broussard...... I'm told no meetings scheduled rest of week...D Fisher says preseason about to be cancelled& probably start of reg season
Fisher: "We are employees and the NBA are the employers and they hodl the key to when the lockout will be over."
Fisher: We offered to reduce our share of BRI to 53 percent. We were informed that's not close enough. We can't go further on economics.
Fisher: Not sure when the next meetings will be held. Not expecting to meet tomorrow or in the near future.