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![NBA Lockout Watch 2011 SUMMER FROM HELL:
Here are the two main points both sides are bickering entrenched on:
•Salary cap: Owners want a hard cap, which doesn’t allow any exceptions. Players want to keep the soft cap from the CBA that expired July 1, which permitted various exceptions to sign mid-level players and veterans and used a per-dollar luxury tax for clubs that exceed it.
•Revenue split: Under the last agreement, players received 57% of basketball-related income (BRI). They have offered to accept 53%, but only if there is no hard cap. The owners have sought to get them below 50%.
They met today, and they’re meeting again tomorrow, then it’s off to Rosh Hashanah and the possibility of renewing talks again on Friday. They’ve been cagey with the media, which is fine, but the end of the USA Today article was ominous—even though I saw it coming.
The NBA is on schedule for similar decisions made during the 1998-99 lockout, when the league postponed camps and canceled 24 preseason games on Sept. 24 and canceled the remainder of the preseason Oct. 5. The first two weeks of the regular season were canceled Oct. 8.
If 1998-99 is a guide, it took about four weeks from the day a deal was made until the first game of the regular season tipped off. A CBA would have to be in place in less than two weeks for the regular season to begin on time.
[USA Today; PHOTO: TheGaterBite/Flickr]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls7lq4S8Bq1qbcs46o1_500.jpg)
NBA Lockout Watch 2011 SUMMER FROM HELL:
Here are the two main points both sides are bickering entrenched on:
•Salary cap: Owners want a hard cap, which doesn’t allow any exceptions. Players want to keep the soft cap from the CBA that expired July 1, which permitted various exceptions to sign mid-level players and veterans and used a per-dollar luxury tax for clubs that exceed it.
•Revenue split: Under the last agreement, players received 57% of basketball-related income (BRI). They have offered to accept 53%, but only if there is no hard cap. The owners have sought to get them below 50%.
They met today, and they’re meeting again tomorrow, then it’s off to Rosh Hashanah and the possibility of renewing talks again on Friday. They’ve been cagey with the media, which is fine, but the end of the USA Today article was ominous—even though I saw it coming.
The NBA is on schedule for similar decisions made during the 1998-99 lockout, when the league postponed camps and canceled 24 preseason games on Sept. 24 and canceled the remainder of the preseason Oct. 5. The first two weeks of the regular season were canceled Oct. 8.
If 1998-99 is a guide, it took about four weeks from the day a deal was made until the first game of the regular season tipped off. A CBA would have to be in place in less than two weeks for the regular season to begin on time.
[USA Today; PHOTO: TheGaterBite/Flickr]
