Adam Silver

David Stern says he will retire as commissioner of the NBA on February 1, 2014, exactly 30 years after taking the job and guiding the league and its superstar players to worldwide fame.

David Stern said Thursday that he will retire as commissioner of the NBA on February 1, 2014, exactly 30 years after taking the job and guiding the league and its superstar players to worldwide fame.

LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and other NBA stars are pleading their case to keep the Olympics from becoming a 23-and-under event but there are indications the superstars' advice is falling upon deaf ears.

The NBA is proposing to withdraw its top players from Olympic basketball after the London Games and instead model the competition on the under-23 tournament used for football.

The NBA Players Association executive committee has asked Derek Fisher, a veteran guard now with Oklahoma City, to resign as president of the union.

NBA owners and players made it official, ratifying a new deal that brings the protracted lockout to a close and paves the way for a Christmas start to the season.

NBA owners and players made it official on Thursday, ratifying a new deal that brings the protracted lockout to a close and paves the way for a Christmas start to the season.

A tentative agreement to end the NBA's crippling lockout and save the season will have owners and players scrambling to get the details in place in time for a star-studded Christmas tip-off.

NBA owners and players reached a tentative deal Saturday to end a lockout that had thrown the whole basketball season into jeopardy, planning to begin a shortened schedule on Christmas Day.

(Reuters) - NBA owners and players met on Friday to try to reach an agreement that would salvage the league's Christmas Day marquee schedule.

NBA Commissioner David Stern and other league representatives met with players on Friday in a post-Thanksgiving holiday bid to end the lockout and get a season under way by Christmas.

It was the second meeting of the week, but the first involving all of the key figures since Nov. 10, when negotiations for a new labor deal collapsed. Since then, the players have dissolved their union and sued the league.

The NBA Players Association will meet in New York Monday to discuss the latest offer from the owners and determine whether it satisfies enough of their demands to put an end to the lockout.

The NBA players union said it broke off talks with the owners but not before they were presented with a revised offer that includes a shortened 72-game season, starting on December 15.

The NBA will cancel at least another fortnight of its season on Tuesday as owners and players remain at odds over a new collective contract, the New York Daily News reported.

(Reuters) - The likelihood of the NBA season starting at any point over the coming months appeared to be fast disappearing after marathon talks between players and owners ended this week without a deal being struck.

If NBA club owners and players are going to make a breakthrough on Thursday in talks over halting a lockout that began July 1, they will have to do so with league commissioner David Stern absent.

NBA commissioner David Stern has cancelled the first two weeks of the 2011-12 regular season after several hours of meetings failed to result in a new labour deal with players.

NBA commissioner David Stern canceled the first two weeks of the 2011-12 regular season after several hours of meetings failed to result in a new labor deal.