After a flurry of stunning and unprecedented free agent contracts this summer with the influx of money from the NBA’s new television deal, times have never been better for the NBA Players Association. And now, NBPA executive director Michele Roberts said she’s “optimistic” about getting a new labor deal done before any chance for a lockout. http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/c...oid-lockout/YFvnmkZKf6p6xg6KhD4mrI/story.html
Like I've said in a few different threads, Olshey is very aware of what the new CBA will look like and the moves he's made this off season has been with that in mind.
Hmmmm..... sounds like after all the new money handed out to the veterans have made them tell the Player's Association to drop the possible challenge to the "One And Done Rule." There was all that talk they were looking for a case to challenge the age limit a couple of years ago. With the players getting such a large percentage of the pie it doesn't surprise me. Be good at baseball and basketball folks. It pays!
I don't really know why the PA would challenge the one and done rule. It would seem to be in the existing NBA players' interest to make it more difficult to enter the NBA thereby giving the players more security on length of career.
I have grown to be fine with the one and done rule. It would be great if College basketball had the same rule as College football. (3 years) but that is not going to happen. As it is one year gives NBA scouts enough intel to see a player's potential. Much more so than 4 years of HS ball. Plus it tends to hurt basketball schools like AZ and UCLA, and Cal more than it hurts an Oregon or OSU.
The big issue for me is that the rule actually only benefits the owners from making mistakes in scouting. 1 yr of college and 35 games doesn't mean shit for a player's development on or off the court. Are the drafted players really a much better quality than before with all the HSers?
I guess it might help a player transition a little by being on your own on campus vs a big city. And by "on your own" I mean surrounded by horny coeds. Personally I would want that for a solid two years. Until I could hit bars..... legally .
A new CBA can only lead to one thing....Raymond Felton will gain back his donut jiggles from the last one
The owners have met with Silver and given him a list of things they want in the next CBA. Silver goes to the players union and discusses what the owners want, the players union discusses what they want. Silver goes back and reports to the owners. PA updates Olshey. It's not like they're going into negotiations not knowing what they want.
Too bad they can't do away with guaranteed contracts like the NFL. But then, anyone signing the JaVale McGees (for example) of the world, with red flags waving and alarms sounding, to huge contracts gets exactly what they deserve.....
It's pretty simple, the owners get together with Silver and decide they want to increase the salary cap by $20 million. The players union wants an increase of $40 million. Paul Allen tells Olshey this. While you would claim that no one knows what the next salary cap is going to be, Olshey being the smart fella that he is knows the salary cap is going to increase by at least $20 million. And after all is said and done by Olshey... Blazers are $19,555,084 over the cap.
And Paul Allen will say, this loss just balances out the luxury tax on my yacht....I can write off the Blazers luxury tax
