In a way the Chris Paul and Dwight Howard rumors directly impact the Denver Nuggets, as well as most of the NBA. Agents, owners, coaches and players are all waiting to see how both the Paul and Howard situations play out and on Denver’s side the Nuggets held another practice without knowing if Nene and Arron Afflalo would be on a team this year.

It was a little over 36 hours ago when reports came out that the New Jersey Nets were going to offer Nene the max and a day-and-half later and no movement has been made. In fact, reports came out that Howard has set his sights on playing with Deron Williams and the Nets. That would impact what New Jersey is going to do with Nene. If Howard signs with the Nets, they would then pass on signing Nene. Which would put Denver as his most likely destination. However, Paul’s trade to the Lakers fell apart for the second time in three days and the Lakers turned their attention to Howard and that, once again, leaves Nene in a limbo.  (more…)

The 50-50 split was 3 percent more than the owners originally wanted, but was 7 percent less than the players had last season (and 3 percent less than the players were willing to go).

And in turn, talks came to stop Tuesday while the pressure continues to grow on both sides to come to an agreement.

Preseason season has already been canceled, and if a deal isn’t reached on Monday regular season games will have to be taken off the schedule.

With talks not going anywhere, Ken Berger reported that seven of the most powerful agents (Arn Tellem, Billy Duffy, Mark Bartelstein, Dan Fegan, Jeff Schwartz, Leon Rose and Henry Thomas) are working on a conference call to discuss the CBA.

The agents told their players not to agree to a deal anywhere less than the 57 percent which was agreed upon with the last CBA.

NBA.com reported that Stern said that the owners had removed their demand for a hard salary cap, were no longer insisting on salary rollbacks, and would have given players the right to opt out of a 10-year agreement after seven years. But the money split was always going to be the biggest hurdle in these negotiations, with owners insistent on the ability to turn a profit after the league said 22 of its 30 teams lost money last season.

The way it looks right now, games will have to be missed and the biggest loser in this situation again will be the fans.