[新聞] NBA refs to return for regular season
http://0rz.tw/8NkF3 By Chris Sheridan ESPN.com
It's a done deal: The regular NBA refs will be back for the start of the
regular season.
A nearly monthlong lockout of the league's 57 referees effectively ended
Friday night when they approved, on a voice vote, the collective bargaining
deal that was agreed to in principle Tuesday.
"We are pleased to reach this agreement," NBA commissioner David Stern said
in a statement. "The negotiations extended further than either side had
hoped, but when our regular season tips off on Tuesday we'll have the best
referees in the world officiating our games."
Approval was expected after Stern and referees' lead negotiator Lamell
McMorris, both of whom had previously withdrawn from the talks, re-entered
the negotiations and brokered the final settlement in a meeting at the NBA's
New York headquarters.
The referees will conduct a brief training camp in New Jersey this weekend
before receiving their assignments for the start of the regular season, which
begins Tuesday night with four games.
A crew of replacement referees wearing triple-digit jersey numbers officiated
the entire preseason after talks between the refs' union and league officials
broke down.
The NBA believed it had a deal on the eve of the preseason when McMorris
shook hands on a tentative agreement and said he would urge its approval, but
the refs voted 43-14 to reject the deal after one member of the referees'
executive board, Bill Spooner, switched his vote to swing a 3-2 executive
board recommendation that the agreement be rejected. Following that vote,
McMorris -- who also is currently negotiating a collective bargaining
agreement for Major League Baseball's umpires -- announced he was withdrawing
from the negotiations.
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