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NBA owners held a conference call Thursday to receive an update on the lockout, a person with knowledge of the details said.
Also Thursday, the antitrust lawsuit filed by players in California was reassigned to U.S. District Judge Samuel Conti. The first case management conference has been scheduled for March 9.
Though that would be too late to save the season, the sides could request the date to be moved up, or they could settle before it ever got that point. Attorney David Boies, representing players in an antitrust lawsuit against the league in California, said he hoped it wouldn’t be necessary to litigate the case all the way through.
— Reported by Brian Mahoney of the Associated Press
