newyorker: (Above, a screen shot of the National Basketball Players Association website) A new phrase entered the pro-basketball playbook on Monday when the players’ union announced that it would file a “disclaimer of interest,” instantly renouncing its role as a bargaining entity and thus making way for an antitrust lawsuit to move forward against the team owners in federal court. That could lead to months of litigation, putting the remainder of the 2011-2012 season in serious jeopardy. - Ian Crouch on basketball’s nuclear winter: http://nyr.kr/umCm8o

newyorker:

(Above, a screen shot of the National Basketball Players Association website)

A new phrase entered the pro-basketball playbook on Monday when the players’ union announced that it would file a “disclaimer of interest,” instantly renouncing its role as a bargaining entity and thus making way for an antitrust lawsuit to move forward against the team owners in federal court. That could lead to months of litigation, putting the remainder of the 2011-2012 season in serious jeopardy.

- Ian Crouch on basketball’s nuclear winter: http://nyr.kr/umCm8o

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