Therefore this is all subject to negotiation. After the labor dispute is settled, will my team be able to. We're a long way away from knowing how the rules will work in the next agreement. At this point it's unknown whether there will be a hard cap or a soft cap, how much room teams will have to sign free agents, what the trade rules might be or whether exceptions will continue to exist.
So it's pointless to ask right now if the Knicks will be able to sign a third star to go with Amare Stoudemire and Carmelo Anthony , if Orlando will need to trade Dwight Howard, if New Jersey will need to trade Deron Williams , if Miami can add a point guard and a center to complement the Big Three, if the Bulls can add a shooting guard, if the Clippers can add a small forward or if the Lakers can add a point guard who's not an AARP member.
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Carolina Panthers. Third, they want "non-guaranteed contracts. One of the highest paid players in the league right now is Rashard Lewis. In the last two seasons he's played only 50 games and averaged half the point total of Dwyane Wade. The owners want to be able to get out of those contracts. Fourth, the owners -- particularly owners in smaller markets -- want more aggressive "revenue sharing" so that teams that spend like New York and LA do more to subsidize teams that spend like Minnesota and Charlotte.
The players want more money, too. They want to keep guaranteed contracts because that's guaranteed money. They're opposed to the hard cap because that caps their salaries. In particular, a hard cap would keep the wealthier teams from bidding competitively on players. The players union also wants revenue sharing to be part of the collective bargaining agreement so they can force teams at the lower end to spend more on player salaries.
The rookie salary compensation scheme. It shouldn't be too bad of a negotiation. In the NBA, the owners want some fundamental changes to the collective bargaining agreement. Revenue sharing In simple terms, the owners claim that they are losing money. Not all of them, but most.
Though Stern did not say which franchises would lose money, it is presumed that the small-market teams — such as the Indiana Pacers or Denver Nuggets — suffer more because, unlike the NFL, the NBA does not have revenue sharing.
In other words, if the Boston Celtics have a lucrative local TV contact and the Portland Trailblazers do not, well, that's just the way the check bounces. Not that the owners opened their ledgers and showed the players exactly where and why they were unprofitable. And yet, some teams in the largest media markets — including the New York Knicks and the Los Angeles Clippers — could presumably have the most money, but that hasn't led to championships.
As far as the players are concerned, this is the owners' problem, not theirs. Salary cap To create greater parity in the league due to the revenue-sharing imbalance, the owners want to impose a so-called "hard salary cap," which fixes the total amount each team can spend.
You can't afford to keep Kobe Bryant next year? Sorry, Lakers, you may have to unload Lamar Odom to make room in the budget. Naturally, the players are vehemently opposed to a hard cap. 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. The NBA lockout started seven years ago today. Players had no access to teams or facilities. But the best in the world still found ways to hoop. It even shortened the league season to 50 games with the All-Star game, set to feature a dunk contest between Kobe Bryant and Vince Carter , to be canceled.
The lockout commenced when owners reopened the collective bargaining agreement in March , seeking to set a cap on players' salaries. Inevitably, the players' union opposed such a move. However, after division within the union, an agreement was eventually reached in January that set a maximum limit on salaries and a pay-scale for first-year players. In the years following the NBA lockout in , more and more players signed maximum contracts under the salary cap, while younger stars were urged to sign shorter deals to give them the most flexibility.
When the agreement ended in , there was a fear that another such lockout would occur in the near future and so it did in This time, the league season was shortened by 16 games for each side.
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