{"id":10357,"date":"2011-10-03T16:36:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T20:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10357"},"modified":"2011-10-03T16:36:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T20:36:44","slug":"with-eye-on-clock-nba-owners-players-seek-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10357","title":{"rendered":"With Eye On Clock, NBA Owners, Players Seek Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong> \u2014 They don\u2019t have a deal yet, and they are just about out of time.<\/p>\n<p>After some two years of on-and-off negotiations, that\u2019s about all NBA players and owners agree on. The gaps in their financial proposals have been so great that they sometimes decide it\u2019s best to just talk about something else.<\/p>\n<p>Now they have to figure it out quickly. Without at least getting very close to the framework of a new collective bargaining agreement this weekend, hopes of the 2011-12 season starting on time would be all but lost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe realize that the calendar, the clock, the watch, whatever you want to say, is running out in terms of starting our regular season on time. So we\u2019re going to try to get some things done this weekend and see what we can do,\u201d said the Lakers\u2019 <strong>Derek Fisher<\/strong>, president of the players\u2019 association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 They don\u2019t have a deal yet, and they are just about out of time. After some two years of on-and-off negotiations, that\u2019s about all NBA players and owners agree on. The gaps in their financial proposals have been so great that they sometimes decide it\u2019s best to just talk about something else. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}