Then again, so were the NHL's players. That league's owners fought for a hard cap for years and didn't get one until a lockout in caused the cancellation of the entire season. Sound familiar? The players, in return, want to keep the current system in place — the so-called "soft cap" — which imposes a "luxury tax" on a team if its total salary exceeds a certain amount.
And there are always ways around that amount. The luxury tax is then shared with the other teams that didn't overspend. Similarly, the owners also want to impose a limit on the size and length of NBA contracts so that teams are not burdened by expensive stars who flame out. Basketball-related income This is seemingly the heart of the NBA lockout. When the negotiating began, the players agreed to split BRI They later dropped that figure to The players have been united in rejecting such a proposal.
In the most recent proposal from the owners, they sought a division of BRI and a game season beginning on December But the players said no deal. Its current president, Los Angeles Lakers point guard Derek Fisher, and executive director, Billy Hunter, have been leading the negotiations for the players.
But on Monday, when the players rejected the owners' most recent offer, the NBPA announced its intention to disband the union and sue the league for anti-trust violations.
While such a move theoretically ends any hope of an NBA season — because it moves from negotiation to litigation — it is by no means irreversible. Disclaiming the union also doesn't prevent individual players from negotiating with individual teams, though this scenario is unlikely.
On Monday afternoon, many players tweeted their support for dissolving the union and sounded prepared to endure a protracted work stoppage. Instead, the players will now have their outside attorneys, Jeffery Kessler and David Boies, put a full-court legal press on the owners by filing an anti-trust claim. The addition of Boies to the players' legal team is a particularly fascinating move. Perhaps best known as the man who represented Al Gore before the supreme court in the presidential election, Boies most recently counseled the NFL in its CBA battles with the players' union.
In an ironic twist, the NFL players' union was represented by Kessler. Boies has also advised the Yankees and Nascar. Why the switch? As Boies told reporters : "It's obviously a very different situation. In the old days, teams always had the best talents, now a days, you can see a Brian Scalabrine able to have a contract First off, who has room to get a contract and not go over the cap anymore?
Second off, this rule has made it, so almost every single trade is a salary dump. The idea of trading is so every team involved in the deal buyer beware gets better. Teams should be able to make the trades that make sense for them, without worrying about salaries, until a firm, hard cap is in reach. Under the new CBA, they should change this rule, allowing teams to trade as they wish, as long as they are below the hard cap.
Contracts in the NBA have a few major flaws in them. The biggest flaw is that every contract in the NBA is guarantied. When players sign contracts, they will receive that money, whether they earn it, get injured, never play, or are cut.
This can kill teams for years, giving out max contracts worth years and over million dollars, and the players getting injured or just not panning out.
Take for example the 76ers and Elton Brand. Players, on the other hand, wanted to retain the soft cap so teams with higher cap hits could continue be competitive for their services. Both sides refused to budge well into November, causing training camp, preseason and eventually games to be cancelled. Finally, an agreement was reached on Nov. The players ultimately conceded a large stake in the BRI, accepting about 50 percent in the new CBA, while retaining a soft salary cap.
Like this season, the two sides agreed in principle in late June and it took a month to finalize it. Still, the beginning of free agency was delayed by a month because of that ratification process. There was at least a period of time where league employees could not do their jobs. Among the changes that occurred: a one-time amnesty clause that allowed teams to waive one player and clear his onerous salary off their books.
The rule was again applied in The league also restricted the length of contracts to six years for re-signing players and five years for signing players from other teams.
Each was a year less than in the previous CBA. Here is a full list of changes. The lockout was the longest of the four lockouts in NBA history, and the first time the NBA had ever lost a game due to work stoppage. The key issue was player salaries, which the owners wanted to cap and restrict. At the time, Bird rights allowed teams to pay players who qualified any amount. Owners also wanted to establish a new pay scale for rookies, while players wanted to eliminate restricted free agency completely.
After the lockout officially began on July 1, the two sides met periodically throughout the following months but reached no real agreements. Training camps, preseason, regular season and eventually the All-Star Game were all cancelled by then-commissioner David Stern, something that generally frustrated fans of the game who saw both sides as being greedy millionaires.
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