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    "articles": [
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        "uri": "/2011/11/08/stern-rational-thing-for-union-is-to-take-deal/",
        "title": "Stern: 'Rational thing' for union is to take deal",
        "byline": "Brian Mahoney",
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        "prettyDate": "November 08, 2011",
        "timeToRead": "4 minute",
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        "authors": [
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        "summary": "NBA players are facing a Wednesday afternoon deadline to accept the league's current proposal or face a harsher one that calls for rolling back their salaries, and Commissioner David Stern said Monday \"the only rational thing to do is for us to make that deal.\"",
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        "uri": "/2011/10/25/nba-union-not-cuban-proposed-eliminating-cap/",
        "title": "NBA: Union, not Cuban, proposed eliminating cap",
        "byline": "Brian Mahoney",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "October 25, 2011",
        "timeToRead": "4 minute",
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        "authors": [
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        "summary": "The NBA players' association, not Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, proposed the elimination of the salary cap during negotiations aimed at ending months of labor strife, a league official said Tuesday.",
        "body": null
      },
      {
        "uri": "/2011/10/11/nba-cancels-first-two-weeks-of-season/",
        "title": "NBA cancels first two weeks of season",
        "byline": "Brian Mahoney",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "October 11, 2011",
        "timeToRead": "7 minute",
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        },
        "authors": [
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        ],
        "kickerNode": [],
        "summary": "Sticking to his deadline, NBA Commissioner David Stern erased the first two weeks of the season after negotiations failed to produce a new labor deal and warned that more games were in jeopardy of being cut.",
        "body": null
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      {
        "uri": "/2011/09/30/with-eye-on-clock-nba-owners-players-seek-deal/",
        "title": "With eye on clock, NBA owners, players seek deal",
        "byline": "Brian Mahoney",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "September 30, 2011",
        "timeToRead": "4 minute",
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        "authors": [
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            "webUrl": "/author/profile/brian-mahoney/",
            "name": "Brian Mahoney"
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        ],
        "kickerNode": [],
        "summary": "They don't have a deal yet, and they are just about out of time.",
        "body": null
      },
      {
        "uri": "/2011/08/26/is-nba-meeting-next-week-enough/",
        "title": "Is NBA meeting next week enough?",
        "byline": "Brian Mahoney",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "August 26, 2011",
        "timeToRead": "3 minute",
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        },
        "authors": [
          {
            "webUrl": "/author/profile/brian-mahoney/",
            "name": "Brian Mahoney"
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        ],
        "kickerNode": [],
        "summary": "David Stern wants progress in the NBA's collective bargaining talks by Labor Day. He may get his wish.",
        "body": null
      },
      {
        "uri": "/2011/06/30/buzzer-beater-unlikely/",
        "title": "Buzzer beater unlikely",
        "byline": "Brian Mahoney",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "June 30, 2011",
        "timeToRead": "3 minute",
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        },
        "authors": [
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            "name": "Brian Mahoney"
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        ],
        "kickerNode": [],
        "summary": "The NBA is headed to deadline day, with perhaps one last chance to avoid a lockout.",
        "body": null
      },
      {
        "uri": "/2011/06/23/nba-union-wont-take-bad-deal/",
        "title": "NBA union won't take \"bad deal\"",
        "byline": "Brian Mahoney",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "June 23, 2011",
        "timeToRead": "4 minute",
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        },
        "authors": [
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            "webUrl": "/author/profile/brian-mahoney/",
            "name": "Brian Mahoney"
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        ],
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        "summary": "With NBA stars from veteran Kevin Garnett to Rookie of the Year Blake Griffin standing behind him, union president Derek Fisher said Thursday that players won't accept a bad deal to avert a work stoppage.",
        "body": null
      },
      {
        "uri": "/2011/06/21/nba-owners-players-swap-proposals/",
        "title": "NBA owners, players swap proposals",
        "byline": "Brian Mahoney",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "June 21, 2011",
        "timeToRead": "2 minute",
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        },
        "authors": [
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        ],
        "kickerNode": [],
        "summary": "Commissioner David Stern said Tuesday that NBA owners have proposed a \"flex cap\" system, but players still insist it's a hard cap which they won't agree to.",
        "body": null
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      {
        "uri": "/2011/06/02/reason-for-hope-nba-has-productive-labor-talks/",
        "title": "Reason for hope? NBA has 'productive' labor talks",
        "byline": "Brian Mahoney",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "June 02, 2011",
        "timeToRead": "4 minute",
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        },
        "authors": [
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        ],
        "kickerNode": [],
        "summary": "A month before a potential lockout, there was some reason for optimism about the NBA's labor situation.",
        "body": null
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