Oh, Ryan Lillis, you temptress:

Today continues to shape up to be a very, very big day. So do tomorrow and Friday as the two sides lobby for votes. If a recommendation is officially made Thursday, the owners could vote by email by the end of next week. But we could very well know this afternoon what that recommendation will be. Or the committee could determine it cannot come to consensus on a recommendation, leaving it to the full Board to weigh the options. I don't think I've ever seen something this heavily obscured at the league level, and I watched the 2011 lockout pretty closely!