After multiple rounds of negotiations resulted in no agreement between National Basketball Association (NBA) players and team owners, NBA commissioner David Stern canceled the first two weeks of the 2011-12 regular season.

Paul Haagen
Professor of law at Duke University Law School, co-director of Duke's Center for Sports Law and Policy, and chair of the Duke Student-Athlete Counseling Committee.
http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/haagen

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"In what is likely to be his last NBA collective bargaining agreement negotiation, David Stern appears determined to leave a legacy -- a league with a much more favorable labor agreement. He appears ready to run risks to get it."