NBA Lockout – 2011-2012 Season May Be Cancelled
The ongoing NBA lockout reached day 90 on Wednesday, with nothing accomplished as of yet. The NBA lockout meeting is set to resume on Friday, but David Stern is taking serious action to make sure that a resolution will come much faster than it has been going. Stern is planning on threatening the players with a shut down of the entire 2011-2012 season if progress isn’t reached by the end of this weekend. If the NBA lockout results in the 2011-2012 season being cancelled that would certainly devastate basketball betting enthusiasts around the world as well as threaten many basketball sports books.NBA senior vice president Tim Frank has denied that the threat is going to be made by stating “It’s simply not true”. When asked about the coming weekend meetings, Stern stated “I’m focused on let’s get the two committees in and see whether they can either have a season or not have a season, and that’s what’s at risk this weekend”.
The regular 82 game season is set to start on November 1st, but that schedule will have major modifications if some form of an agreement isn’t reached by the middle of next week by both parties. The preseason is the first to be affected by the lockout, resulting in the cancellation of all 43 preseason games along with the postponing of the training camps.
One thing that has been agreed on by both sides is that there hasn’t been enough progress to form any kind of deal whatsoever. Meetings will resume on Friday in New York following the end of Rosh Hashanah. When asked about the expanded meetings, Union president Derek Fisher of the Los Angeles Lakers stated that “I think it points more toward the calendar than actually being able to measure progress.
It points to the realities that we face with our calendar and that if we can’t find a way to get some common ground really, really soon, then the time of starting the regular season at its scheduled date is going to be in jeopardy big-time.”.
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