"DWADE: Why are all your "system solutions" only impacting the PLAYERS?? What have the owners giving up of significance??

And with that question from, you guessed it, Dwyane Wade, a fairly unprecedented 100 minutes began.

In advance of the National Basketball Players Association's mandatory meeting of all 30 player representatives on Monday morning, a Sunday afternoon tweet announced that NBA Commissioner David Stern and deputy commissioner Adam Silver would take any and all questions regarding the league's final proposal for a new collective bargaining agreement.

Their answer to Wade: "The economics & system favored the players in prior CBA — Teams lost over 300m last year."

Yep, shorthand — and 140 characters — ruled the day in advance of a nervous week for the NBA lockout. Stern has tried to make clear that if the union doesn't accept the standing proposal sometime this week, a far harsher proposal featuring a 53-47 split of income favoring the owners, rollbacks of current contracts and a hard salary cap will follow.

In case the union doesn't understand, Stern reminded all of the sobering stakes in real time.

"If decertification occurs, players' contracts would become void," the @NBA Twitter feed wrote in response to a fan's question.

There were questions from players, fans, reporters. The league answered them all."