Labor Talks Delayed; No New Date Set

A collective bargaining session between a group of NBA owners and players, originally scheduled for Tuesday, “failed to materialize,” a league spokesman said in New York.

The development could be an ominous sign in labor talks, coming less than a week after Commissioner David Stern publicly downgraded his outlook for reaching a new agreement from “optimistic” to “hopeful.”

“They said they’d get back to us as to what the next step would be,” union spokesman Dan Wasserman said.

The deal expires June 30.

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