Saturday marked the 100th day of the 2011 NBA lockout.
Sunday marks the first moment of clarity.
Representatives for league owners and players are not scheduled to meet in New York for a last-minute conference that could end the work stoppage and produce the framework for a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) — a deal that would preserve the entire 82-game 2011-12 regular season and dissolve more than two years' worth of personal frustrations and philosophical divides.
With no compromise in place, dominoes will fall.
The NBA will issue a news release Monday declaring that the first two weeks of the season have been canceled, erasing eight Jazz games from the calendar. At the same time, 30 NBA arenas will go dark. League offices will remain open, but practice facilities will stay closed. Coaches and team executives will still be unable to have any contact with players without facing a major fine.
As the fracture between league owners and players becomes deeper, the NBA will enter the unknown.
A lockout that started July 1 and has already entered its fourth month could either end by mid-October or stretch into 2012. Even if a CBA is reached in the near future, it will take about a month for the league to ratchet its basketball machine back up to full force. For every additional week that passes without an agreement, another slate of games will be permanently removed from the 2011-12 schedule.
The NBA is just a day away from canceling regular-season contests for only the second time in the league's 65-year history. There is no going back once commissioner David Stern issues his edict Monday.
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