- Title: USA: NBA DISPUTE CONTINUES.
- Date: 5th January 1999
- Summary: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (JANUARY 4, 1999) (NBC-NO ACCESS CNN/USA) 1. PLAYER UNION NEGOTIATOR BILLY HUNTER EMERGING FROM MEETINGS HE HELD WITH NBA COMMISSIONER DAVID STERN. 2. [SOUNDBITE] (English) HUNTER SAYING what we did is present a proposal. We've met with David Stern and Russ Gralnick I guess for about 30 to 45 minutes. I think they're going to have a conference call and we'll talk to them later. 3. (SOUNDBITE) (English) NBA COMMISSIONER DAVID STERN SAYING Russ Granik and I met with Billy Hunter and Patrick Ewing this afternoon for about an hour. We received what they described as the union's final offer. We reported back to the labour relations' committee and the labour relations' committee voted unanimously to recommend to the board of governors at Thursday's meeting that the 1998/9 NBA season be cancelled. (FILE - VANCOUVER, CANADA) (TNT - SCHEDULED NEWS ONLY) 4. NBA COMMISSIONER DAVID STERN ANNOUNCES MICHAEL OLOWOKANDI AS THE LEAGUE'S NUMBER ONE DRAFT CHOICE. WASHINGTON, D.C. (JANUARY 4, 1999) (NBC-NO ACCESS CNN/USA) 5. [SOUNDBITE] (ENGLISH) OLOWOKANDI SAYING "The only reason we're doing this is that you cannot be out of work, number one, for a whole year and, number two, not have basketball experience for a whole year. Those two things were very instrumental in my decision to go to Europe." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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