what a shocker, yet another person has no idea what you are gabarbling about, i think thats about everyone at this point
NBPA head Billy Hunter said on WFAN that the NBA players and owners have agreed to meet with a federal mediator on Monday.
KBergCBS: League source confirms the two sides are working on scheduling a meeting for early next week.
The NBA labor talks are headed for government intervention after the canceling of games drew the attention of the nation's top federal mediator. George Cohen, director of the federal mediation and conciliation service, will be in New York City Monday to interview separately executives from the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association, two people with knowledge of the meeting told CBSSports.com Wednesday. The two parties will then meet in Cohen's office Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Billy Hunter, the NBPA's executive director, divulged in a radio interview with WFAN in New York earlier Wednesday that the two sides had agreed to have their failed negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement federally mediated. Cohen, appointed by President Obama, was called upon to mediate the NFL's labor negotiation with the NFL Players Association before that sport's recent lockout was imposed. He has no binding authority and can only make suggestions. If nothing else, a fresh set of eyes and opinions -- not to mention meetings with a different venue and format -- couldn't hurt. Cohen has argued five landmark labor cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and last year helped avert a crisis in Major League Soccer's labor talks. He is a former appellate court attorney with the National Labor Relations Board, and in fact argued before then-U.S. District Judge Sonia Sotomayor on the day she issued an injunction that effectively ended the Major League Baseball strike in 1995. Cohen was the MLBPA's lead attorney in the case, and also has worked with the NBPA. In a Los Angeles Times article from March, footbal agent Leigh Steinberg said a good mediator is "an expert in the psychology of human gridlock." To that extent, Cohen has joined the right fight, as the NBA and NBPA are hopelessly, needlessly gridlocked over issues that should have been easily solved once they approached a compromise on how to divide the sport's $4 billion of revenues. The league's bargaining talks broke off Monday night after 13 hours over two days and multiple sessions over a two-week period. The league on Monday canceled the first two weeks of the regular season. Drawn by the fact that lost games will have an economic impact beyond the parties involved, Cohen's office called both parties this week to request that they voluntarily participate in mediation, two sources said. Both agreed. For those wondering why the step wasn't taken sooner, federal mediators generally don't get involved in labor disputes unless asked, or unless they reach an impasse after the sides had ample time to bargain. The NFL requested Cohen's involvement before the lockout was imposed, and while it's unclear what impact he had on the ultimate resolution, his powers at the time were muted by the lack of urgency in the talks.
If I were the owners, I would encourage the players to start their own league so they could see just how much it is to operate one. I would love to be there when Amare says..."Wait, I have to pay for the plane? The hotel?My own food? The coaches? The guys that clean up the arena? The refs? The Doctors? The ticket guys? The balls? The practice arenas? The food to feed the fans? The financial guys that figure out how to pay for it all? The ticket sellers? The engineers to keep everything working....etc
[video=youtube;f0sSI271MvA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0sSI271MvA&feature=player_embedded[/video] Then do something about it!
Well Obama appointed Cohen to handle this who then: called both parties this week to request that they voluntarily participate in mediation, two sources said. Both agreed. You want Obama himself to handle the mediation?
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Jordan probably looks at the money being spent on players and cringes. Some Recent NBA Players Who Will Have Made More Career Money Than Michael Jordan (Based on Current Contracts) MJ - ~$90 million Joe Johnson Andrei Kirilienko Erik Dampier Yao Ming Peja Stohakovic Lamar Odom Pau Gasol Damon Stoudamire Gilbert Arenas Michael Redd Eddie Jones Jalen Rose Steve Francis Mike Bibby Shawn Marion Marcus Camby Antoine Walker Kenyon Martin Brian Grant (30th Most $$$ Ever???? I love some BGrant, but Wow!) Antonio McDyess Allan Houston Baron Davis Rashard Lewis Penny Hardaway Antawn Jamison Zydrunas Ilgauskaus Elton Brand Michale Finley ($140 million!!!) Juwan Howard ($150 million???) Stephon Marbury ($151 million) Rasheed Wallace ($156 million - 9th all-time!!) Jermaine O'Neal ($159 million?!?!) Chris Webber ($178 MILLION) The list goes on and on
Welcome to the knatlike attention span of HuevonKiller, Rasta. You usually aren't on the OT board, so you don't know that he specializes in 1-liners pretending to know economics and insulting you for supposedly not knowing economics. When Denny posts in the thread, he'll just blow you off by telling you to "see Denny's post."
Obama is pro union. I don't want him handling anything because the players are the ones who need to give back
It's because he doesn't want to be disrespected/fined again http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/6...obcats-fined-100k-talking-lockout-sources-say I'm with MJ.
Dear NBAPA, Auto workers just accepted a contract making less because the economy sucks. Stop being so fucking greedy and understand that 50/50 sounds fair to every American. You have had it good for long enough. Give up the 5th six figure car and get back to work
