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Dirk Nowitzki is well now but return later this year with the NBA Dallas Mavericks-winner on the field. Since Friday night (local time) the wage dispute to the North American NBA basketball league has ended - at least for now. Representatives of the club owners and the players have in New York City Marathon for a new hearing on an agreement to end the first since the July continued "lockout", the lockout of the players, agreed.
NBA boss David Stern said that both sides had reached in the wage dispute "an interim agreement, but which still requires several confirmations. We are confident this will all be accepted and that the season on 25 December will begin. "
This requires a majority on both sides. For the NBA must agree to 15 of 29 club owners to the agreement (the league owns the New Orleans Hornets). Players on site by a simple majority of the approximately 430 organized professionals.
Nowitzki in the BBL? "The dream was not to be beautiful"
The opening game of the season could be shortened deny NBA champion Dallas Mavericks with Dirk Nowitzki and the final opponent Miami Heat. In addition, planned for Christmas, a very promising rate television time in the U.S., the games against Boston Celtics New York Knicks and Chicago Bulls against the Los Angeles Lakers. Nowitzki had repeatedly stressed to want to play abroad, if the entire season would be canceled.
In recent months, had been repeatedly speculated that Nowitzki would be perhaps a guest appearance in the German Basketball League (BBL), if the NBA season would be canceled. Well anyway this naive hope has now burst final. "The beautiful dream, this vision should not be" in Bamberg manager Wolfgang Heyder the news agency said on Saturday DAPD. "We all would love to see Dirk in the BBL."
66 games per team scheduled
After a secret meeting earlier this week, representatives of both sides sat together on Friday more than 15 hours to save the remainder of the 2011/2012 season games yet. Now 149 days after the lockout agreement reached foresees to start before Christmas a season with 66 games per team. On 9 December to the training camps of NBA teams are re-opened.
Previously, the talks between the club owners and players on 14 November was broken off. The "lockout" was the first Started in July. The NBA season 2011/2012 was actually the first November will begin. In the wage dispute is about the distribution of the total revenues of the league of around four billion dollars (three billion euros). Billy Hunter, the chairman of the players union, said: "We thought it is in our mutual interest to reach an agreement and save the game."
