BRIEFLY : NBA PLAYERS, OWNERS SOFTEN.Byline: Daily News Wire Services Both the NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= owners and players have softened their stances on how much money the players should be paid, participants in the talks said after negotiations ended in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of early Thursday morning. The players, who have been locked out since June 30, reduced their demand to 60 percent of revenue from 63 percent, participants said. The league posted $2 billion in revenue last season. ``All we have to do now is agree on the numbers,'' said union president Patrick Ewing Patrick Aloysius Ewing (born August 5, 1962) is a retired American professional basketball player. He played most of his career with the National Basketball Association's New York Knicks as their starting center and played briefly with the Seattle SuperSonics and Orlando Magic. , a participant in the negotiations. ``Talking can only help do that.'' After an eight-hour negotiating session that began Wednesday afternoon, NBA commissioner David Stern
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