Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The collective bargaining agreement (CBA) of the National Basketball Association (NBA) is a contract between the league (the commissioner and the 30 team owners) and the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA), the players' union, that dictates the rules of player contracts, trades, revenue distribution, the NBA draft, and the salary cap, among other things.
The NBA salary cap is the limit to the total amount of money that National Basketball Association teams are allowed to pay their players. Like the other major professional sports leagues in North America, the NBA has a salary cap to control costs and benefit parity, defined by the league's collective bargaining agreement (CBA).
The NBA utilizes a soft salary cap, meaning there is a salary cap but there are a variety of exceptions that allow teams to exceed that cap. For example, teams can re-sign players already on the team to an amount up to the maximum salary allowed by the league for up to five years regardless of where their payroll is relative to the cap.
The NBA seems to want to make it easier for teams to keep their own guys … Under the current CBA, the most a team can offer a veteran player in an extension is 120% of his salary in the final ...
The agreement means the league will avoid a work stoppage, which was always an unlikely situation. The last major stoppage was in the 2011-12 season, which was reduced to 66 games.
Opinions vary among league personnel about benefits, negatives of NBA’s new collective bargaining agreement. Jake Fischer. July 17, 2024 at 4:02 PM.
The National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) is the labor union that represents National Basketball Association (NBA) players. It was founded in 1954, making it the oldest trade union of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. However, the NBPA did not get recognition by NBA team owners until ten years ...
In it, Dolan heavily criticizes the NBA's revenue sharing structure and new $74.6 billion media deal. He feels that the media deal deemphasizes regional sports networks (RSNs) to the point of near ...