Hopes Dim For NBA Season: Players Reject Offer  This year's NBA
season may never get underway. The players have rejected the
owners' latest offer. The main sticking point: revenue sharing.
The pro basketball season had been getting canceled a couple of
weeks at a time, but now the entire season could be lost.
Players rejected last night what the owners said was their best
offer. And the players made a dramatic move as well. They
actually disbanded as a union. We're going to talk about this
with NPR's Mike Pesca. He joins us from the studios of our
member station WBUR in Boston.  Mike, good morning.   INSKEEP:
Hope WBUR is taking good care of you up there.  PESCA: They are.
INSKEEP: What is the point of disbanding the union?  PESCA:
Well, it's a tactic. And the owners would say it's just a tactic
or a sham tactic. But the players would say there's enough
legitimacy behind it and it gives us some options.  Now, because
there is a union it means that there could be no antitrust
litigation. But, of course, ev