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06-21-2005, 07:49 PM
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NBA avoids the fate of the NHL and reaches agreement with Union
NEW YORK -- NBA owners and players agreed to a new collective bargaining agreement Tuesday, averting the possibility of a lockout. The league called a news conference in San Antonio prior to Game 6 of the NBA Finals, with commissioner David Stern and union director Billy Hunter announcing their agreement. The deal came on the fourth consecutive day of talks between the sides. The league's old seven-year agreement is due to expire on June 30. Details of the new six-year agreement were not immediately disclosed, but the sides had been trying to reach compromises on several key issues. Among them were the owners' desire to raise the minimum age for draft eligibility to 19, reduce the maximum length of long-term contracts from seven years to six, and reduce the size of annual salary increases in those long-term contracts. Among the main items the players were seeking was a reduction in the so-called escrow tax under which 10 percent of their salaries are withheld if the amount of revenues devoted to players salaries exceeds a specified percentage. Owners had already offered to raise the salary cap from slightly more than 48 percent of revenues to 51 percent, thereby increasing the amount of money each team can spend on player salaries. The NBA has a system known as a "soft" salary cap, allowing teams to exceed the cap threshold to retain their own free agents, and to sign free agents under the so-called midlevel exception that was added to the labor agreement in 1999 after the sides went through a 7 1/2 -month lockout. Another lockout could have begun July 1. The agreement will still need to be ratified by the league's Board of Governors and by the members of the players' union at their annual meeting in Las Vegas next week.
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06-21-2005, 08:23 PM
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Good for the NBA, especially cause this Finals has been worth watching, hate for them to lose momentum.
They just built a new Ice Rink at a mall here in Arlington, supposedly for the Caps to use as a practice facility. Talk about bad timing on that. Yeesh! Just noticed that the agreement also includes a one year increase in the age limit- no more high schoolers jumping straight to the pros. JV
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06-21-2005, 09:42 PM
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Not a huge fan of the NBA (though these Finals HAVE been exciting), but... good for them.
Juan
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06-22-2005, 10:07 AM
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NBA = ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
ever since the Bulls/Knicks battles of the 90's have been over I've had a really hard time getting interested in the NBA.
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06-22-2005, 10:43 AM
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Good for the league, players, and fans. As a big NBA fan, I was worried about a lock-out, and equally worried about a protracted war in the press that would make everyone look bad. It wouldn't have served Stern and management well to disparage the very players that the league has to market once a deal was reached. For a second, I thought it was heading down that path.
Now I can sit back and enjoy Game 7 of the Finals. Go Pistons! (Since I'm a Wizards fan, I'm pulling for the team full of ex-Wizards 
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