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Refs expecting Oct. 1 lockout

By Marc Stein
ESPN.com

Thursday, September 10, 2009

The lead negotiator and spokesman for NBA referees announced Thursday that the referees expect to be locked out when exhibition play starts Oct. 1 after contract negotiations with the league broke down this week. Lamell McMorris, in a press release, also asserts that the NBA has begun to contact replacement referees to work in the preseason and perhaps the early part of the regular season. NBA lead negotiator Rick Buchanan, in response, said Thursday that talks collapsed because the referees' ...

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