“There are enormous consequences at play here on the basis of the weekend,” Stern said after league negotiators and representatives for the National Basketball Players Association met for a second straight day at an Upper East Side hotel. “Either we’ll make very good progress, and we know what that would mean – we know how good that would be, without putting dates to it – or we won’t make any progress. And then it won’t be a question of just starting the season on time. There will be a lot at risk because of the absence of progress.”
In addition to the players’ executive committee and the owners’ full labor relations board, union president Derek Fisher said several “key players” will be attending Friday’s meeting. Among them are expected to be LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Carmelo Anthony, sources said, with other stars like Amar’e Stoudemire and Kevin Durant possibly joining the negotiations.
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