Stern Doesn't Expect Contentious All-Star Labor Negotiations

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DALLAS -- With labor negotiations on the docket Friday at All-Star Weekend, there's sentiment in the NBA that the league is heading toward a lockout.

Still, NBA commissioner David Stern said he doesn't believe there will be a negative tone when negotiating committees set up by the owners and the players' union get together in Dallas.

"This meeting is going to be not contentious at all,'' Stern said Thursday. "We have a great community of interest together.''

Stern also made another prediction about the labor talks.

"This is not going to be a short process,'' he said.

In this faltering economy, the NBA is almost certain to announce by the Dec. 15 deadline it will not pick up the option to keep the current collective bargaining agreement for 2011-12. That means there could be a lockout when the CBA expires June 30, 2011.

 

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