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Refs lockout 'imminent and unavoidable'

By Chris Sheridan
ESPN.com

Thursday, September 17, 2009

NBA referees expected a lockout to be "imminent" after negotiations Wednesday between their union and the league failed to produce a new collective agreement. After rejecting the league's latest offer by a vote of 57-0 at their meeting in Chicago on Wednesday night, the union and league exchanged further counterproposals Thursday, with the union claiming to have made $1 million in additional financial concessions. But the talks ended at an impasse, and lead union negotiator Lamell McMorris sai ...

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