First Cup: Thursday

Craig Stouffer of the Washington Examiner: "The NBA lockout discussion has moved from BRI to CSI. Instead of negotiating the finer points of basketball-related income in a labor agreement that would have paved the way for the start of the NBA season, the breakdown in talks has both the league and the players working feverishly to find evidence to use against one another in court. Recent actions by both NBA commissioner David Stern and the National Basketball Players Association have been touted as legal ploys meant to portray the other as not bargaining in good faith.

Source: http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/33362/first-cup-thursday-182

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