Starting on Monday afternoon, mediator extraordinaire George Cohen met with both sides of the lockout—both David Stern and the owners and Billy Hunter and the NBPA.
That was the calm before the storm of meetings that would come over the next three days.
Tuesday started off brilliantly. The sides met for more than 16 hours, and although there was no word on whether there was progress or not, you had to imagine that there was at least something to speak of. It seems like it would be difficult to put a group of people in a room for 16 hours and have them not come out with at least some form of progress.
Then, like a gift from above, Cohen ordered a gag order on anyone involved in the talks. Nobody said anything to the media after day one, which seems like it would be a bad thing to someone like me who has to write about the damn thing, but really them not saying a word was best for progress.
It seems like the biggest problem over the course of the initial meetings before Cohen was involved was the players and owners giving different stories to the media, getting mad at each other through the media and then dragging their feet to schedu ...
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