Many of the issues are the same as in the dispute between the National Basketball Association and its players union, which led to a six-month lockout.

Still, a split between the National Rifle Association and "others" - including its traditional allies - is looming.

Negotiations between the National Basketball Association and its referees remain at an impasse with the start of the regular season less than two weeks away.

Mertz said the "legalese" of the contract was being sorted out between the Nets and the National Basketball Association.

The other seats are divided evenly between Softbank and the National Association of Securities Dealers.

Negotiations between the National Basketball Association and the players union ended abruptly yesterday after a six-and-a-half-hour meeting in Manhattan.

Under the agreement between the National Basketball Association and its union, a player who seeks drug treatment is given three opportunities for rehabilitation.

And so we come to the labor dispute between the National Basketball Association and the players union.

The next step in the labor dispute between the National Basketball Association and its players will come tomorrow.

As labor battles go, the current one between the National Basketball Association and its players is weird even by sports standards.