Updated: November 9, 2011, 4:42 pm ET

Report: Stern Authorized to Negotiate

By HOOPSWORLD
Basketball News & NBA Rumors

NBA commissioner David Stern has the authority to make minor system alterations to the owners’ latest labor offer to the players to try to complete a collective bargaining agreement and end the lockout, ownership sources told Yahoo! Sports.

“There can be a few things tweaked along the edges, the periphery, and this can be agreed upon,” one ownership source said. “I’m confident that would not be an issue if [Stern] did that.”

“It will be a very slight budge,” one high-ranking management source said.

via Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports

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