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Well, that was fun. After nearly 150 days of lawsuits, mediations, intramural flag football games with Kevin Durant, exhibition basketball games in Rucker Park with Kevin Durant, exhibition basketball games in Oklahoma City with Kevin Durant, and lat...

The executive director of the Players Association, Billy Hunter, is on the B.S. Report today with Bill Simmons. He said that as soon as his players said they wanted to compromise, he would get them a deal. But at the moment the rhetoric sounds nothin...

Our NBA experts tackle five big questions following the league's cancellation of the first two weeks of the season.

I have never chosen to believe the gloom about missing an NBA season. Will there be games missed? Possibly, but there are many reasons for both sides to get a deal done.

Andrew Brandt breaks down the issue of the hard cap in NBA negotiations.

Optimism about the NBA lockout? Not here. In fact, the labor dispute between the league and its players union makes the NFL's lockout look like child's play.

The NBA's labor deal has expired, and the league has locked out its players, the second pro sports league shut down by labor strife.

The NBA locked out its players Friday when its collective bargaining agreement expired, becoming the second pro sports league shut down by labor strife.

With NBA stars from veteran Kevin Garnett to Rookie of the Year Blake Griffin standing behind him, union president Derek Fisher said Thursday that players won't accept a bad deal to avert a work stoppage.

The NHLPA is five years removed from the madness of a lockout, and the next labor negotiation is looming large. Has the union learned anything from its own history?

David Stern answers some lockout questions with ESPN.com's Marc Stein.

While commissioner David Stern seems to understand how the American people feel about the possibility of a lockout, the same can't be said for union chief Billy Hunter.

Chad Ford examines the latest ominous signs in the NBA's labor battle. • Sticking points