NBA owners are expected to lock out players tonight after the two sides failed to reach a new collective bargaining agreement, union head Billy Hunter said.
WBoth sides met for three hours today in New York, with the midnight deadline approaching, but could not close the gap between, possibly jeopardizing the 2011-12 season. The last lockout caused the 1998-99 season to be reduced to 50 games. That was the only time games were lost to a work stoppage.
“We tried to avoid the lockout,” Matt Bonner, a member of the union ’s xecutive committee, told the Associated Press.“Unfortunately we couldn’t reach a deal.”
Hunter added that no further talks were scheduled, but said that both sides were cordial. “I thought we were gonna start singing ‘Kumbaya’ in there,” he said
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