I know exactly what a Besson production will mean: high-concept action rendered as a high-octane cartoon in live-action, with a severe chance for martial arts. The French filmmaker’s name equals a style equals a brand. His aesthetic appears even when he doesn’t direct. His creative stamp supersedes all. And so it is again with Lockout, […]
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No Thunder, just ‘nuclear winter’
That’s how Commissioner David Stern characterized the lockout Monday after the players’ union rejection of the latest league proposal. The battle now shifts from the bargaining table to the courtroom. “We’re about to go into the nuclear winter of the NBA,” Stern told ESPN. The National Basketball Players Association posted that following message at NBPA.org: […]
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No Thunder, just ‘nuclear winter’
That’s how Commissioner David Stern characterized the lockout Monday after the players’ union rejection of the latest league proposal. The battle now shifts from the bargaining table to the courtroom. “We’re about to go into the nuclear winter of the NBA,” Stern told ESPN. The National Basketball Players Association posted that following message at NBPA.org: […]
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No Thunder, just ‘nuclear winter’
That’s how Commissioner David Stern characterized the lockout Monday after the players’ union rejection of the latest league proposal. The battle now shifts from the bargaining table to the courtroom. “We’re about to go into the nuclear winter of the NBA,” Stern told ESPN. The National Basketball Players Association posted that following message at NBPA.org: […]
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Gag me with a lockout
You can see how frustrating it can be. And it’s easy for hoops fans to have misperceptions about collective bargaining agreement negotiations. Now comes a report from the Sporting News that the NBA has set up a Twitter account to issue clarifications of 140 characters or less (“Collective Bargaining news and facts directly from the […]
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Gag me with a lockout
You can see how frustrating it can be. And it’s easy for hoops fans to have misperceptions about collective bargaining agreement negotiations. Now comes a report from the Sporting News that the NBA has set up a Twitter account to issue clarifications of 140 characters or less (“Collective Bargaining news and facts directly from the […]
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Gag me with a lockout
You can see how frustrating it can be. And it’s easy for hoops fans to have misperceptions about collective bargaining agreement negotiations. Now comes a report from the Sporting News that the NBA has set up a Twitter account to issue clarifications of 140 characters or less (“Collective Bargaining news and facts directly from the […]
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Neutral Mick
On Oct. 13, Fox Sports printed a story about the NBA lockout and Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett’s reaction to it. The story stated that Cornett was “livid” about the lockout and blamed the problems in negotiations on the players’ agents. Then, on Oct. 19, Yahoo! Sports news carried a story about NBA city mayors […]
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Without Thunder
But that doesn’t mean you have to lock yourself into your homemade bomb shelter until David Stern starts waving his little, white flag. Climb the stairs and click on the TV, at the very least. We promise there’s stuff to do this fall besides mourning the Thunder. —Gotta get that fix? There’s a certain, extremely […]
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Lockout lookout
Several downtown businesses are keeping a close eye on the prospect of a canceled season, and hoping the situation gets resolved soon. So what caused the current situation, and how does it affect the city? What happened? The last collective bargaining agreement between NBA players and the NBA was agreed upon June 21, 2005. The […]