NBA players and owners did agree on one point Friday: They are miles apart.

Claiming owners were making a "ludicrous" attempt to influence individual players, union director Billy Hunter said after a 11/2-hour bargaining session that he didn't see the sides getting back together for at least a week.Hunter and union president Patrick Ewing, who also attended the negotiating meeting, are angry commissioner David Stern has general managers and coaches starting to lobby players to accept management's proposal.

"We're miles apart," Hunter said. "They're trying to manipulate our players into thinking the proposal they have on the table is a good proposal and the players should put some leverage on Patrick and me and the negotiating committee."

Stern and deputy commissioner Russ Granik agreed that nothing was accomplished.

"The union informed us they were unable to give us a new proposal, as they had indicated earlier this week," Granik said in a statement. "We agreed that we are very far apart with no solution in sight."

On the 129th day of the lockout, Hunter said Stern had directed GMs and coaches to drive a rift into the union.

"Bad-faith bargaining. No question about it," Hunter said. "Maybe it's just an act of desperation."

With the start of the season pushed back to mid-December at the earliest, the sides essentially have given up bargaining for now, making it unlikely games will be played until 1999. Earlier this week, Stern charged the union leadership kowtowed to high-profile agents such as David Falk, who represents Michael Jordan and Ewing.

"Their idea is clearly to sweat out players," Hunter said. "He wants to test my resolve and the players' resolve."

Hunter claimed efforts were under way in Boston, Cleveland, Miami and Milwaukee to get players to support the NBA's latest plan.

"Until we see some movement from them, there's not going to be any movement from us," Hunter said. "I don't think they'll be inclined to negotiate until they're done taking their poll."

In response to management's actions, Hunter said the union will meet with members next week.

"We're not going to permit the owners unfettered access to our players in an attempt to manipulate them and then not attempt to clean the record up," he said.

Players, who received 57 percent of revenue last season, are asking for 60 percent. The owners, who wanted to pay no more than 51.8 percent last season, want the percentage scaled back to 50 percent.

Hunter said he intends to turn management's tactic around on the owners.

"I am going to send our proposal with a full explanation to every GM, and we'll send their proposal along so they can compare the two," he said.

In the first regular-season work stoppage in NBA history, nine more games were lost Friday, increasing the total to 34. That's about the only thing added to the equation.

"This," Hunter said, "wasn't the time to talk about putting anything else on the table."