Udonis Haslem: Season will be saved

Udonis Haslem hopes to be healthy enough to play soon.

And he's hopeful the NBA will be back in business before too long as well.

The Miami Heat forward said Saturday that he believes the NBA's players and owners will come to terms on a new labor deal in time to save the season. The lockout is now in its third month, although there's hope that rounds of talks in recent days -- along with more scheduled for Tuesday -- means that some progress is being made.

"Both sides want to get a deal done. So that's a good thing," Haslem said. "At least both sides want to get a deal done. And I feel comfortable, confident that we will."(...)
Given that, it's possible the next few days will provide key clues to where things really stand.

"It could be a big week," Haslem said. "Compared to how much progress we've made in the past to now, this is great progress. We haven't really been able to have a conversation. There's been a lot of yelling, stuff going on. The fact that we've made some progress right now is a positive."