This
is absolutely a welcome news to all who loves the NBA. Both negotiating parties,
the team owners and the players association, are rushing things up to come up
with a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) within the next three weeks.
Target date is reportedly on September 28. And if everything goes well as
planned, NBA training camps will open on time come the first week of October.
NBA commissioner David Stern confirmed that they are trying to work things out
on or before the said date. “Yes. We have three weeks”, Stern quipped. On the
other hand, NBPA executive director Billy Hunter thinks there is still a lot of
time left to save the 2011-12 season, “I think there is. I think there clearly
is. There’s more than enough time”, according to CBS Sports.
“With that, Stern dropped the first publicly
acknowledged deadline for a deal to be reached without canceling at least a
portion of training camps or preseason. Three weeks from Wednesday is Sept. 28,
and training camps league-wide are scheduled to begin the first week of
October.”
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