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Possibly On the Verge of A Labor Agreement/NBA Season


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Signs of labor optimism: Team execs cancelling scouting trips, preparing for free agency. Agents quietly reaching out to teams on players.

I can't wait to see who we bring in free agency-wise and Kemba and Biyombo out there on the court together! I haven't been this hyped for a season in a while, just to see what we have.

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Talks have broken down again. Turns out all that progress made yesterday was on most of the big items except the revenue split. Today owners still would not budge from a 50-50 split. Players lowered their demand from 53-47 to 52-48 but would not drop any lower.

Back to the drawing board.

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Yep, the Union won't split the difference and the owners won't go all the way up to 2%. The biggest problem is Kessler and player agents. The players would have already dropped down to 51% if it wasn't for those two factors.

I said this from the start, for this deal to get done the Players are going to have to give up a lot. The owners gave up on a hard cap, lowering the MLE, guaranteed salary for players and there isn't going to be a significant raise to the lux tax. The only thing players have given up so far system wise is shorter contracts, smaller raises each season and the drop in overall salary that everyone knew was needed.

This isn't about the owners not wanting to go below 50/50, this is about the players not wanting to actually make any concede anything major that's needed for the NBA as a whole to survive. The salary reduction was going to have to happen no matter what and needs to happen. The BRI split going more in favor of the owners was going to happen. Owners having given up their 3 major points, the BRI split is going to have to go in their favor even more so then was originally assumed.

The only thing left for the deal to get done is for the players to go to 51%, that's it. Hunter left the table and said that the Agents and lawyers wont let me go below 52%. No possibility of a split to 51% ( a difference of 40 million dollars of the total of 4 billion dollars)

If I was the NBA, I'd lock the season out because of that. Demand a hard cap, eliminate guaranteed contracts, lower the MLE to 3 million and demand nothing lower then a 51-49 split. That's where this is going if the players don't move soon.

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honestly this isn't that much of a shock....they dick around for a couple months....then on the verge of losing the season they make one "decent" effort, which of course falls short because they haven't been talking seriously for months

fug em

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