Opinions vary among league personnel about benefits, negatives of NBA’s new collective bargaining agreement

LAS VEGAS — Perhaps the most pivotal leverage point among the NBA’s latest round of collective bargaining with the players association was the league’s urging for some form of upper spending limit — a hard stance on salary intent on kneecapping high-spending teams such as Golden State, the Los Angeles Clippers and Brooklyn. It was clear, with this new CBA, the league wanted “to ensure that every team was in a position to compete for championships,” commissioner Adam Silver said Tuesday, “and had the resources available to do so,” which has come by eliminating resources from the game’s giants.

The union, as expected, viewed anything resembling a full hard-cap as a non-starter, league sources told Yahoo Sports, and the ultimate result has so far produced a new “apron era” for the NBA’s transaction market, which has left team strategists and player representatives significantly handcuffed while attempting to conduct their business during this first offseason operating by the 2023 CBA. When the Clippers released a stunning statement before this free agency even opened early in the evening of June 30, Los Angeles made three pointed references at these sudden limitations “under the constraints of the new CBA” before the Clippers further detailed how an opt-in-and-trade scenario dealing Paul George “would have left us in a similar position under the new CBA, with very little asset value to justify the restrictions.” Instead, the Clippers were already suspecting they’d lose George on the open market, thanks to an eventual four-year maximum contract offer from Philadelphia. “At the same time, we’re excited by the opportunities we’ve now been afforded,” the Clippers’ statement read, “including greater flexibility under the new CBA.”

Paul George joining the 76ers was the biggest move in a quiet free agency season. (Photo by Ric Tapia/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Lawrence Frank met with reporters this week at Summer League and Los Angeles’ chief executive doubled down on that stance. “Team building for each team is going to be different with this new CBA,” Frank said….

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Publish date : 2024-07-17 20:02:08

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