NEW YORK (AP) — Owners and players have arrived for a “very huge day” in the NBA, with perhaps the fate of the league’s 82-game schedule at stake.
With both sides acknowledging they are nearly out of time to save the Nov. 1 opener, some level of progress seemed essential in a meeting Tuesday between their full bargaining committees.
The sides were first meeting among themselves, with the bargaining session expected to start at noon.
Union president Derek Fisher said Monday that a lot of signs pointed to Tuesday as “being a very huge day.” His teammate Kobe Bryant was expected to take part, with Boston Celtics stars Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett among other players joining the union’s executive committee.