NFL labor decision could hold clues to what NBA will face
The decision of a Minnesota judge Monday to end the NFL’s lockout of its players –and her refusal on Wednesday to delay the implementation of her ruling — is a potentially significant development in the NBA’s stalled negotiations with the National Basketball Players Association on a new collective bargaining agreement, giving the basketball union a possible game-changing weapon to use in case of last resort. But it is not a guarantee that the NBPA will ultimately win in court should it opt to decertify, or terminate, its union as the NFL Players Association did. Nor is it certain that the union even wants to decertify.