Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports set fire to labor talks: “This union is threatening to implode, the push and pull of people wanting to cut a deal and those willing to keep warring over

Two economists for Grantland: “Does the players’ line in the sand over 2.5 percent of BRI make economic sense? No, not if they miss many games to achieve it. Is the owners’ offer fair?

Marc Spears of Yahoo! Sports: “Whenever the lockout ends – whether it’s next week or next month – NBA teams know this much: They’re not going to have much time to prepare for their

Howard Beck of the NYT: “Some notes of caution on NBA labor talks: “very, very difficult system issues” still to be settled, source says, including luxury tax plan.” Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports: The

The two sides met for more than 15 hours yesterday and appeared to make a decent amount of progress on system issues. According to some reports, the system is almost all but settled and

Chris Palmer of ESPN.com tries to figure out who is most athletic between Rose, Westbrook and Wall: “Westbrook is as close to a perfect leaper as there is. He owns a high vertical leap,

An update to yesterday’s Serge Ibaka rumor: He’s officially signed with Real Madrid. It’s for two months and could sign an extension if the lockout’s not settled. David Thorpe of ESPN.com writes James Harden

Players talked lockout after the OKC charity game: “No, no. Fifty-three. That’s where we’re staying at. We’ve had plenty of talks and we’re not dropping,” Harden said. “We already dropped and set our number