If this doesn’t happen I’ll be pissed. According to several news outlets, while we were sleeping or stumbling back home from our night out. The league we love and miss reached a tentative deal to end the 149-day lockout with hopes of starting the season on Christmas Day (YEAH!). Details are still trickling out of this unofficial deal, but it looks like it’s ThunderCats go!
“We want to play basketball,” Commissioner David Stern said.
Of course things could still go south on this handshake deal as it must be first ratified by both owners and players to become reality. However it looks as if the secret 15 hour meeting that went down Friday will save the season from “Nuclear Winter” and a 66-game season will happen.
Stern says the deal was “subject to a variety of approvals and very complex machinations, but we’re optimistic that will all come to pass and that the NBA season will begin Dec. 25.”
If the schedule picks up on Christmas Day without a scheduling change, the 2011-12 season will tip-off with a tripleheader featuring the Boston Celtics vs. New York Knicks, Miami Heat vs. Dallas followed by the Chicago Bulls vs. LA Lakers.
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