2011 Nba Lockout

NBA Season Salvaged: 5 Best Newspaper Columnist Reactions

Danny Groner | Posted 01.27.2012

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Danny Groner

After a 149-day lockout, the NBA announced this weekend that owners and players had finally reached a tentative deal on a collective bargaining agreement that will save the season. Well, 66 games of it.

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NBA Lockout Over, Players React On Twitter

The Huffington Post | Tara Kelly | Posted 11.26.2011

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It seems there might be a Santa Claus after all. NBA players and owners agreed on a tentative deal very early Saturday morning bringing the 149-da...

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NBA Owners, Players Reach Tentative Deal To End 149-Day Lockout

AP | By BRIAN MAHONEY | Posted 01.25.2012

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NEW YORK -- With a Christmas Day tripleheader on everyone's wish list and a tentative labor agreement in place, NBA owners and union officials went ba...

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NBA Cancels More Games As Players File 2 Lawsuits

Posted 11.15.2011

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The NBA formally notified teams Tuesday that it has canceled games through Dec. 15, erasing a total of 324 games or 26 percent of the season as the lo...

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Live Twitter Reaction to NBPA Rejecting NBA's CBA Proposal

Posted 01.14.2012

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The threat of the 2011-12 NBA season being non-existent is now very real. The NBPA has rejected the most recent CBA proposal, and David Stern has prom...

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The Hard Truths Illuminated by the Fall of Joe Paterno, the Death of Joe Frazier and the NBA Lockout

Joe Lapointe | Posted 01.10.2012

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Joe Lapointe

Like the rich, successful actors who play the broken-down Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, our sports performers act as our avatars and our archetypes, on and off the court, field and ice. Truth sometimes flows through them and sometimes it is a hard truth worth learning.

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From CC to the NBA Lockout -- Why Sports Is Not a Logical Business

Larry Hirsch | Posted 01.07.2012

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Larry Hirsch

I miss my NBA. Owners, this is a game, not the business you made your money in. Your emotion got you into this, let it guide you. If you don't have the resources to play the game, your fans deserve someone who does.

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Kevin Durant Plays Flag Football With College Students

Posted 01.01.2012

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Kevin Durant has certainly been among basketball's best ambassadors during the long NBA lockout, which reached 124 days on Tuesday. The Oklahoma City ...

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Who Might Finally End Solve The NBA Lockout?

Posted 12.27.2011

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CHICAGO -- The emails come with increasing frequency, frustrated and sarcastic, quick to comment on the "geniuses" at work whenever the NBA owners and...

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Is NBA Lockout Breaking Up Kris And Kim?

Posted 12.27.2011

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Aside from the heartache experienced by basketball fans and the financial impact being keenly felt by arena and team staff, the NBA Lockout might also...

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Spencer Haywood On The NBA Lockout, His Hall Of Fame Induction And LeBron James

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Schultz | Posted 12.25.2011

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Spencer Haywood won an Olympic gold medal in 1968, at the age of 19, and was signed by the Seattle Sonics two years later after dominating the ABA. In...

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Top 5 Sports Stories

Len Berman | Posted 12.21.2011

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Len Berman

Did the NBA season end yesterday? It sure feels that way. There had been marathon talks with a federal mediator and then talks broke off with both sides pointing fingers.

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NBA Clings To A Fragile Position

Posted 12.20.2011

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Give them credit, they have been consistent. The NBA has always said that they want two things from a new CBA: To adjust player salaries so that ow...

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Is There Something In The Way Of Kobe & His Italian Dream?

AP | Posted 12.18.2011

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BOLOGNA, Italy -- The Italian club Virtus Bologna says "unexpected engagements" have made it impossible to sign Kobe Bryant this month, but both sides...

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The Moment The NBA Labor Negotiations Fell Apart

ESPN | Henry Abbott | Posted 12.15.2011

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David Stern, Billy Hunter, Derek Fisher, Adam Silver, Spurs owner Peter Holt, union lawyers Ron Klempner and Jeffrey Kessler ... with various others d...

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Obama Is 'Hearbroken' Over NBA Lockout

The Huffington Post | Michael Klopman | Posted 12.12.2011

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NBA Commissioner David Stern's announcement on Monday that the first two weeks of the 2011-12 NBA season have been canceled broke the hearts of NBA fa...

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Top 5 Sports Stories

Len Berman | Posted 12.11.2011

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Len Berman

The NBA has canceled the first two weeks of the season, and before you know it, the entire season may blow up. The unemployment rolls just got larger.

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Sports Blitz Now Episode II: Discussing Hank Williams Jr. and Offering Fantasy Football Advice

HuffPost Radio | Posted 12.06.2011

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Jordan Schultz and the guys broke down the Red River Rivalry game this weekend between No. 1 Oklahoma and archrival Texas, talked about the Hank Williams Jr. disaster and, of course, made all their picks for the upcoming marquee games.

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Kobe & Italy? A Love Affair

AP | Posted 11.28.2011

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MILAN — Kobe Bryant said it's "very possible" he will play in Italy during the NBA lockout, adding the country is like home because he spent par...

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NBA Postpones Training Camps, Several Preseason Games

AP | BRIAN MAHONEY | Posted 11.23.2011

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NEW YORK — The lockout has started doing real damage to the NBA's calendar. Players won't report at the usual time. The preseason won't start a...

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Optimism For NBA?

Posted 11.08.2011

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On Wednesday, the NBA and its players' union held what appears to have been a successful meeting. No deals were announced (and probably won't be for s...

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Chris Bosh Talks Dirk Nowitzki, NBA Finals, Lockout

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Schultz | Posted 11.07.2011

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With his extended summer vacation in full effect, Chris Bosh recently participated in the first Call of Duty XP fan fest at Raleigh Studios in Playa D...

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PHOTOS: Blake Griffin Starts New Internship

AP | By JAKE COYLE | Posted 10.24.2011

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NEW YORK -- Stymied by the NBA lockout, Blake Griffin is going to work for Will Ferrell instead. This week, the Los Angeles Clippers All-Star forwa...

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NBA Player To Work As Assistant During Lockout

AP | By BRIAN MAHONEY | Posted 10.24.2011

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Luke Walton will check out another possible career while locked out of his current one. The Lakers forward will be working as an as...

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Wade: 'I'm Going To Play Basketball This Year'

AP | By TIM REYNOLDS | Posted 10.10.2011

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MIAMI -- Dwyane Wade has decided he cannot take a year away from basketball. And if the NBA goes that route, Wade has decided to go somewhere else....

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