Well, players and team officials, including coaches, owners, staff, are not permitted to talk to their players. No one gets their paycheck, and every players' contract has temporarily expires until the new CBA collective bargaining agreement is signed. In this slideshow, I will do my best to help you best understand what is going on in this lockout, with the issues, and some potential solutions. The NBA has lost a tremendous amount of money in the past two years, which is why the salary cap has dropped, and teams have less money for players, coaches, and other important things.
This is due to the fact that 22 out of the 30 teams are losing money. The NBA needs to operate like a business, and re-evaluate their model, to try and appeal to more people and gain money. Every other sports market has grown, including Soccer, so they must figure out ways to make money with merchandise, ticket sales, and promotional opportunities.
The smaller market teams in the have the biggest disadvantage in the NBA, than of any other league. Large Market Teams, such as the Los Angeles Lakers , Chicago Bulls , Miami Heat , and so on, have dominated this league, by having huge fan bases, with large markets to be able to go over the luxury tax to acquire players. You'll find that Big Market teams that win will be able to sign or trade for the best players, based on where these players want to play.
A small market team like the Minnesota Timberwolves are constantly tempted to move, because there is no fan base, and they make no money. But on Monday, when the players rejected the owners' most recent offer, the NBPA announced its intention to disband the union and sue the league for anti-trust violations.
While such a move theoretically ends any hope of an NBA season — because it moves from negotiation to litigation — it is by no means irreversible.
Disclaiming the union also doesn't prevent individual players from negotiating with individual teams, though this scenario is unlikely. On Monday afternoon, many players tweeted their support for dissolving the union and sounded prepared to endure a protracted work stoppage. Instead, the players will now have their outside attorneys, Jeffery Kessler and David Boies, put a full-court legal press on the owners by filing an anti-trust claim. The addition of Boies to the players' legal team is a particularly fascinating move.
Perhaps best known as the man who represented Al Gore before the supreme court in the presidential election, Boies most recently counseled the NFL in its CBA battles with the players' union. In an ironic twist, the NFL players' union was represented by Kessler. Boies has also advised the Yankees and Nascar. Why the switch? As Boies told reporters : "It's obviously a very different situation. It's a situation in which the collective bargaining process has essentially broken down.
For their own purposes, the NBA has chosen to issue an ultimatum. It's our way or no way …It was only when [the players] concluded that the collective bargaining process was over with and that there wasn't any purpose in continuing that they took this action.
David Stern joined the NBA in as its general counsel, and has been its powerful league commissioner since While he has been instrumental in transforming the NBA brand over the past three decades, many now blame him for mishandling the negotiations with the players' union.
But Malcolm Gladwell offered a different explanation for why the owners have been so entrenched in their position — the psychic benefit that comes with owning an NBA team much as it does with buying a piece of art. But scratch the surface and the similarities disappear. Pro sports teams don't operate in a free market, the way real businesses do.
Their employees are 25 years old and make millions of dollars a year. He went on: "And they are asking us to believe that these 'businesses' lose money. But of course an owner is only losing money if he values the psychic benefits of owning an NBA franchise at zero — and if you value psychic benefits at zero, then you shouldn't own an NBA franchise in the first place.
When the players' association voted to dissolve the union on Monday, David Stern issued a dire forecast : "We're about to go into the nuclear winter of the NBA and it's very sad," the commissioner said. It's just a big charade, a negotiating tactic.
It's not gong to work. The slate of games Wednesday night — including the Jazz-Thunder game delayed before tipoff and postponed soon thereafter — was the last for an indefinite period of time. The New Orleans game at Sacramento, scheduled later than the others, subsequently was cancelled as well. Jazz stars Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell confirmed on Thursday that they both had tested positive for the coronavirus. Earlier Wednesday, the NBA Board of Governors had met via teleconference to discuss the virus, the safety of those involved and proposed scenarios for dealing with the health threat, from staging regular season games without spectators in the arenas to shutting down temporarily.
But the events that scuttled the Jazz-Thunder game, and the ripple effects, prompted the league to invoke the hiatus.
Multiple reports cited Gobert as the infected player, although the league did not mention him by name. Denver coach Michael Malone also mentioned Gobert in his postgame news conference in Dallas. However, in a precautionary measure and in consultation and cooperation with NBA medical staff and Oklahoma health officials, the decision was made to test for COVID The Utah player was receiving care in Oklahoma City. Rapidly escalating questions and fears about COVID — and how the NBA could best protect its participants and fans — led on Monday to a joint decision with other major sports leagues to close locker rooms to the media.
Interviews with players and coaches were conducted in press conference-like set-ups elsewhere in the arenas, and reporters were required to stay feet away from those interviewed. But the decision to suspend the season has taken this to an entirely new and unprecedented level.
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