Read: The Best Concept To Have The Players/Owners Meeting
2:48PM: Bob McKenzie tweets    • 2 players, 2 agents, 2 owners,
2 GMs in room to settle remaining issues. 1 lawyer/side to
document agreement that would be done in day or 2.   • We’d
either have deal in place and be playing games before Christmas
or we’d know that everyone gave it their best shot and season is
done.   • I’m not naïve, certainly not an idealist, I get CBAs
are complex but my fanciful notion can’t be more absurd than the
dance we’re witnessing   Adam Rotter: I think this would be the
best idea. The GM’s and the agents are the creative ones who
make deals work and they should finally get a seat at the table,
besides Brian Burke, to try and end the lockout. The players
need to hear from someone who instead of just yelling at them or
saying “we need this and that is the way it is” can talk to them
and not down to them, someone who they can trust and someone
they can work with. The only way this ends, and doesn’t happen
again in five or sev