News from November 25.

After several days of negotiations (including 15 hours of negotiations on
Friday that extended into Saturday morning), the NBA and the players'
association announced that they have reached a tentative agreement on a
new collective bargaining agreement that will end the lockout.  The
agreement does need to be finalized and voted on by both the players and
owners, but everyone is optimistic that it will be approved and the
tentative schedule is for a 66 game schedule starting on December 25 (with
a triple-header of Boston at New York, Miami at Dallas, and Chicago at LA
Lakers) and training camp starting December 9 (with free agency signings
also starting December 9).  Details of the new agreement were not
announced yet.


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  Patricia Bender                       pbender@eskimo.com
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