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Atlanta Hawks: Labor fight heads to courtroom as season in jeopardy

Found November 14, 2011 on ajc.com:
PLAYERS: David Stern,  Billy Hunter
TEAMS: Atlanta Hawks
(3:40 p.m. update: David Stern speaks, Billy Hunter says season probably lost.) NBA players got David Stern’s memo and dragged it to the trash bin. Not only did the NBPA not send the owners’ latest offer to a vote of the full membership, the executive committee and the 30 player reps unanimously rejected the proposal and filed a “disclaimer of interest” that renounces the union’s interest in representing players in bargaining with the league. Billy Hunter said the next stop is a federal courtroom, where individual players will file antitrust suits against owners. At a press conference following the union meeting, Hunter said “the collective bargaining process has completely broken down.” Later on NBA TV Hunter said: “It’s a high probability rather than possibility” that the 2011-12 season is lost. Later on SportsCenter, Stern blasted union leadership for what he called a “sham” strategy, said the move is “really irresponsible given the timing of it” and predicted a “nuclear …
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