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With lockout negations still going on, the NBA has announced Friday (September 23) that they've postponed training camps indefinitely, and canceled 43 preseasons games, because both sides have yet to real a new labor deal.
According to ESPN, games from October 9th to the 15th have been canceled.
"We have regretfully reached the point on the calendar where we are not able to open training camps on time and need to cancel the first week of preseason games," deputy commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement. "We will make further decisions as warranted."
There was a meeting between owners and players on Thursday (September 22), but ended without a collective bargaining agreement. So, the upcoming NBA schedule has been pushed back.
ESPN says that both sides still hope the entire regular season, scheduled to begin November 1, can be saved.
While there's been lockout talks before, the NBA has lost games to a work stoppage only once, when the 1998-99 season was reduced to a 50-game schedule.
This time, tThe league locked out the players July 1, after the expiration of the old labor agreement. Owners and players still haven't agreed on how to divide revenues -- players were guaranteed 57 percent under the previous deal -- or the structure of the salary cap.
According to ESPN, the league offered players a smaller percentage during Thursday's negotiations -- a 46 percent share of basketball-related revenue, 11 percent less than they received in the last deal and 7 percent less than the last proposal by players.
During negotiations, the players' union had offered to reduce its percentage to as much as 54 percent, with the stipulation that a mechanism would be instituted to reward the players if future revenue increased, the source told ESPN.
While a date for their next meeting has yet to be scheduled, both sides say they hope to meet next week. If a deal isn't reached by mid-October, real game might have to be canceled.
According to ESPN, games from October 9th to the 15th have been canceled.
"We have regretfully reached the point on the calendar where we are not able to open training camps on time and need to cancel the first week of preseason games," deputy commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement. "We will make further decisions as warranted."
There was a meeting between owners and players on Thursday (September 22), but ended without a collective bargaining agreement. So, the upcoming NBA schedule has been pushed back.
ESPN says that both sides still hope the entire regular season, scheduled to begin November 1, can be saved.
While there's been lockout talks before, the NBA has lost games to a work stoppage only once, when the 1998-99 season was reduced to a 50-game schedule.
This time, tThe league locked out the players July 1, after the expiration of the old labor agreement. Owners and players still haven't agreed on how to divide revenues -- players were guaranteed 57 percent under the previous deal -- or the structure of the salary cap.
According to ESPN, the league offered players a smaller percentage during Thursday's negotiations -- a 46 percent share of basketball-related revenue, 11 percent less than they received in the last deal and 7 percent less than the last proposal by players.
During negotiations, the players' union had offered to reduce its percentage to as much as 54 percent, with the stipulation that a mechanism would be instituted to reward the players if future revenue increased, the source told ESPN.
While a date for their next meeting has yet to be scheduled, both sides say they hope to meet next week. If a deal isn't reached by mid-October, real game might have to be canceled.
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