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NEW YORK -- NBA owners and players are ready to try mediation, and commissioner David Stern wants results quickly. Nike Air Max 90 Goedkoop Bestellen . Stern said last week during an interview with WFAN radio in New York without a deal Tuesday when the sides meet with federal mediator George Cohen, his "gut" was there wouldnt be NBA basketball on Christmas. Owners are opening two days of board meetings Wednesday, and Stern wants to be able to bring a deal to them. But can a mediator swoop in and smooth out two years of bickering in one day? Lawyer Jay Krupin, chair of EpsteinBeckerGreens national labour practice in Washington, doesnt think so -- unless the players are prepared to concede on some issues. "If the players want to get back on the court, then this is a great time for them to try to show that theyre willing to make some type of compromise, and I think thats what it is," he said. "This is an opportunity to really determine whether or not the players are willing to make concessions. "I think the owners are willing to walk away without concessions, so if the players really want to make concessions when they meet, that has to be expressed to the mediator. "If that happens, then the burden turns to the NBA to say, All right, youll be willing to make some concessions; now were willing to talk. If theyre not willing to make concessions, then the mediation would just go on for the day and itll let the NBA know that they probably have to cancel, go through Christmas and maybe even the rest of the season." Players already feel theyve conceded plenty financially, and they dismissed Sterns attempt to attach added importance to Tuesdays talks. Union president Derek Fisher of the Los Angeles Lakers said it was just an "arbitrary deadline" for potential Christmas cancellations. Stern was clear in the radio interview and others he gave late last week that he was just stating his opinion about further losses of games -- but not about his desire for significant movement Tuesday. "If theres a breakthrough, its going to come Tuesday," he told NBA TV. "And if not, I think that the season is really going to potentially escape from us because we arent making any progress." Cohen, who tried to resolve the NFLs labour dispute, met with the sides individually at their offices in New York on Monday. He will then oversee talks between their full bargaining committees Tuesday at a hotel. He said last week he had already been in contact with representatives of both sides "for a number of months," so hes familiar with some of the issues that still divide them. Players oppose a hard salary cap, and they believe owners attempts to make the luxury tax more punitive and limit the use of spending exceptions will effectively create one. Also, each side has formally proposed receiving 53 per cent of basketball-related income after players were guaranteed 57 per cent under the previous collective bargaining agreement. With so many issues remaining beyond those, it seems too much to get done in one day. Executive director Billy Hunter said Friday after meeting with players in Los Angeles the union sought to have the whole week set aside for mediation but the league wouldnt commit to that because of its owners meetings. "The board of governors meeting has been scheduled for a year for Wednesday and Thursday. We told the mediator that we would make ourselves available day and night on all other days," Stern said in a statement to The Associated Press. Cohen was appointed director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service by American President Barack Obama in 2009. He helped broker a deal between Major League Soccer and its players just before the season was scheduled to begin and was lead lawyer for the baseball players union when it won an injunction against its owners in 1995, ending the 7 1/2-month strike. Krupin calls Cohen "a very good mediator" and "wonderful gentleman," saying, "If theres a real interest in the parties trying to get something done, George would be able to make it happen." But, he adds, thats dependent on the players. "Its much easier for the federal mediator to say to the players, Look at the scale where we are. Really the owners have very little to lose. They made a long-term investment. As players, you have only a few years to play at your peak and the owners can hold out a lot longer than you can. So when you look at this objectively, you really should try to understand that there has to be a change in the system," Krupin said. "And I think thats why the commissioner said, Im going to give you Tuesday. Im not going to meet the rest of the week. I think that (owners) know they have the upper hand and theyre giving them the opportunity to reach a deal, and so I dont see George having to put great thoughts into either sides mind. I think that George can be used as a facilitator to try to get a deal if the players really wanted one." Nike Air Max 90 Goedkoop . The game will be made up on Thursday as part of a day-night doubleheader. Tickets for the Wednesdays game will be honoured for the 1:05 p. Nike Free Run 2 Dames Kopen . Anthony Davis and the New Orleans Pelicans ended up with the bigger problem.MILWAUKEE -- As last-second, game-winning 3-pointers go, this one wasnt the prettiest. But it got the job done, and thats the only thing that mattered to Mike Dunleavy and the Chicago Bulls. At this point, the Bulls will take whatever offence they can get. Dunleavy banked in a three-pointer with 5.8 seconds left and Joakim Noah came up with a block on the other end, leading the Bulls to a 91-90 comeback victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Friday night. Dunleavy said he had to change the angle of his shot to avoid the reach of his defender, 6-foot-11 forward John Henson. "Hes so long so if I would have shot my normal shot, he might have got a piece of it," Dunleavy said. "So basically what Im saying is, I took a bad shot and it went in." Trailing by two in the final seconds, Chicago came up with a tie-up on the defensive end and won the jump ball, allowing Dunleavy to hit a high-arching 3 that banged off the glass, then in, for the lead. Noah then blocked O.J. Mayos shot to preserve the lead -- and a victory that appeared unlikely just seconds before. "You could see his rhythm coming offensively," Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said of Noah. "Defensively, hes been terrific from the start of the season but offensively, you can see his timing is back." Noah scored 21 points and grabbed 18 rebounds -- both season highs -- for the Bulls, who ended a three-game losing streak. Chicago scored fewer than 80 points in all three of those losses -- including one to Milwaukee in Chicago on Tuesday. Jimmy Butler scored 16 points in his return from injury for Chicago. "I felt all right," Butler said. "Rusty. Out of shape. Terrible. But Im glad my guys pulled this win out." Carlos Boozer scored 14 points and added 12 rebounds. Gary Neal scored 17 points and Henson added 15 for the Bucks, who appeared to have the game won when Khris Middleton hit a desperation shot with 29.8 seconds left. Instead, it was another disappointment. "It wasnt even really supposed to get to that point, but we made some mistakes, critical mistakes, and thats what happens," Henson said. And to make matters worse for the Bucks, a crowd filled with travelling Bulls fans made it sound like a home game at times for Chicago -- especially at the end, when Dunleavys shot set off a thunderous ovation. Nike Air Max 2015 Kopen. Thats not a new phenomenon when the Bulls visit Milwaukee -- but to Henson, it is somewhat annoying. "A little bit, man," Henson said. "But, hey, theyre an hour away. It was a Bulls crowd." Milwaukee went on a 12-4 run to take an 11-point lead with 7:37 remaining. The Bulls chipped away at the lead, but Henson passed to a wide-open Ekpe Udoh on the baseline and Udoh delivered an emphatic dunk for an 88-83 lead with 1:30 left. Mayo then fouled Dunleavy on a three-point attempt, and Dunleavy hit all three free throws to cut the lead to two. After a Milwaukee miss, Boozer made a game-tying jumper with 54.9 seconds left. Middleton then hit a desperation shot with the clock running out, giving Milwaukee a two-point lead. Butler was called for travelling on the other end and the game appeared to be all but over -- but it was only setting the stage for Dunleavys big moment. "He hit a tough shot," Bucks coach Larry Drew said. "It wasnt an easy shot. It was a contested shot. But Ill say it again: It should not have come down it (that). We were in position where we should have closed that game out." While Derrick Roses season-ending knee injury has garnered the most attention, it hasnt been the only critical injury for Chicago this season. Butler missed 11 games because of a toe injury and the Bulls are still without Luol Deng, who remains sidelined with a sore left Achilles. Chicago added some depth earlier in the day Friday, signing free agent guard D.J. Augustin. Augustin was scoreless in 11-plus minutes in his Bulls debut. NOTES: Drew said guard/forward Carlos Delfino will have surgery on his right foot in his native Argentina on Saturday. There is no timeline for his return. . Larry Sanders has been fitted with a protective glove and cleared to resume some basketball activities, but there is no timeline for his return from a thumb injury. ... Thibodeau said Deng is feeling better and could be available for Saturdays game. cheap jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys ' ' '
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