NBA owners meet, remain committed to hard salary cap

NBA Cheap Jerseys owners remain committed to a hard salary cap system but gave the league's labor relations committee authorization "to negotiate on all points" with locked-out players NBA commissioner David Stern said Thursday after the league's Board of Governors met for more than five hours in Dallas.
No meetings have been scheduled between league executives and the National Basketball Players Association, which updated Cheap Jerseys Wholesale players Thursday in Las Vegas, but Stern said "it wouldn't surprise me if there was some conversation that was going on" Friday after both parties return to New York.
Players and owners met Tuesday in New York after three recent intense negotiating sessions, and both sides were cautiously optimistic. Each side made economic concessions but talks fell apart when they could not find common ground on a cap system. Players are opposed to a hard cap, with NBPA Executive Director Billy Hunter calling the topic a "blood issue."
While expressing a desire to find a cap system and economic model that meets owners' goals, the league suggested it was willing to listen to systems that didn't involve a hard cap.
"We're willing to negotiate about all aspects of a new Cheap NBA Jerseys system and all aspects of the economics," Silver said. "But that to come out of this negotiation with an economic system but one that doesn't solve the problem of competition among the 30 teams would not be a result that would be in the long-term interest of the league, of our fans or of the players for that matter because presumably every player in this league also wants to play for a team that can compete for a championship.
Referees were locked out prior to the start of the 2009-2010 season and replacement referees officiated preseason games. However, the league and the NBRA reached a two-year deal before the start of the regular season.