Here is the NBA.com's Article on No News in latest labor talks looks like bad news:
NEW YORK --
NBA commissioner David Stern emerged from the latest bargaining session between the league and its players union on Thursday with no news, which figures to be bad news for the possibility of starting training camps and the preseason on time.
Stern and other league negotiators met with National Basketball Players Association representatives for about five hours in an Upper East Side hotel -- their first full face-to-face session since last week -- but reported no real progress on forging a new collective bargaining agreement. And time is growing short.
"The calendar is not our friend," Stern told reporters on the street after the meeting, a sentiment echoed moments later by union president Derek Fisher. It is widely believed that a new CBA must be struck sometime in the next week -- or sooner -- for training camps and the preseason to start on time.
Stern said he had no announcements about a possible delay to the opening of camps or the start of the exhibition season. But at this point, that seems imminent. With camps scheduled to open Oct. 4, and the first exhibition game scheduled for Oct. 9 -- and with the two sides still far apart on many issues -- a deal that would save the start of the preseason looks unlikely.
The start of the regular season, too, is being threatened by the dragging pace of the negotiations. During the last lockout, in 1998, the league canceled the first two weeks of the regular season about three weeks before the scheduled start.
The 2011-12 season is scheduled to start Nov. 1, so if these negotiations follow form, the league could cancel the start of the upcoming season somewhere around Oct. 11. That's less than three weeks away.
The two sides also reported that no new bargaining sessions are scheduled, though Stern -- who celebrated his 69th birthday on Thursday -- told reporters that the two sides will try to get together again next week.
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