October 23, 2011 1:47 PM
The Score: NBA Talks Collapse; Dodgers Drama Drags On
Posted by Brian Baxter
Collective bargaining negotiations between National Basketball Association players and owners collapsed Friday, increasing the likelihood that the entire 2011-2012 season will be lost.
Our former colleague Zach Lowe, writing for SI.com’s Point Forward blog, has more details on what led the labor talks to break down. As Lowe notes, the league and the players’ union had brought in federal mediator George Cohen—a former partner at Washington, D.C.–based boutique Bredhoff Kaiser—last week in an effort to help both sides reach a deal.
But despite having already lost the first two weeks of a season that was scheduled to start on November 1 and negotiating almost nonstop over three days, the parties failed to agree on such thorny issues as how to divvy up league revenues and whether a new collective bargaining agreement will allow for limits on the length of player contracts.
The breakdown in talks means that lawyers for both sides will continue to rack up billables in connection with the labor dispute. In a preview of what those billables might
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