{"id":10873,"date":"2011-10-24T15:32:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T19:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10873"},"modified":"2011-10-24T15:44:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T19:44:20","slug":"nba-lockout-talks-turn-nas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10873","title":{"rendered":"NBA Lockout Talks Turn Nasty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW YORK\u00a0<\/strong> &#8212; Three days and 30 hours&#8217; worth of talks ended on a nasty note Thursday in NBA labor negotiations. And only one thing seemed fairly certain: more games were likely to be cut. Possibly even the season.<\/p>\n<p>Players insist that&#8217;s the outcome owners wanted all along &#8211; &#8220;preordained,&#8221; as union executive director<strong> Billy Hunter<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve always felt there was still a place where they would just not go and they would lock us out as long as it would take in order to get us beyond that place.<\/p>\n<p>There was never really a willingness to negotiate beyond certain points,&#8221; union president <strong>Derek Fisher<\/strong> of the Lakers said. &#8220;There was just a line drawn, and regardless of what&#8217;s going on, how many times we meet, `we&#8217;re not going past that.&#8221;&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>After 30 hours of negotiations before a federal mediator, the sides remained divided over two main issues &#8211; the division of revenues and the structure of the salary cap system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u00a0 &#8212; Three days and 30 hours&#8217; worth of talks ended on a nasty note Thursday in NBA labor negotiations. And only one thing seemed fairly certain: more games were likely to be cut. Possibly even the season. Players insist that&#8217;s the outcome owners wanted all along &#8211; &#8220;preordained,&#8221; as union executive director Billy [&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-10873","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\/10873","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=10873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}