Report: FIBA official to meet David Stern and discuss lockout

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Rough translation:

 

NBA lockouts threatens to seriously change the flow of European basketball, and, as "News" unofficially learned, President John Mainini FIBA Secretary General Patrick Baumann FIBA travel on Monday in the U.S., where he will meet with NBA Commissioner David Stern.

 

 

On the agenda will be two issues: pay astronomical insurance for NBA players who want to perform at the EP and the possibility of playing in Europe under the NBA players igovorom during lockouts.

 

 

Although the national federation announced that it will greatly pay all necessary insurance to play only complete the EP, it turns out that there are a lot of money, in the case of France and Spain, as many as four million dollars and that it now no one has paid. As a result, turned to FIBA, who agreed to come to help and talk to the NBA.

 

 

Under the current arrangement, so far as the third of the insurance paid equally, NBA, FIBA and National Federation. However, since the lockouts, the deal was frozen, and NBA clubs they determine the amount of insurance, which ranges up to three percent the size of the contract.

 

 

If there is no agreement, it could happen that none of the NBA players do not play on the EP, and Deron Williams announced relocation and other NBA aces in Europe during lockouts, although some have already signed, leaving only a dead letter.

 

http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/sport.72.html:338241-Sastanak-celnika-NBA-i-FIBA

 

So if both sides can't come to an agreement then no NBA players will be allowed to play overseas? Hopefully there is one then and ESPN will be broadcasting some of these Euro games.

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I think they can play wherever they want can't they? It is all just a matter of insurance. I mean if they aren't getting paid by their NBA team, they should have the right to earn a paycheck somewhere else.