2011 NBA CBA News

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Details of NBA's Bargaining Position Emerge

In its first official proposal to players, the NBA is seeking to institute a hard cap, shrink salaries across the board and invoke a drastic rejiggering of guaranteed contracts, according to a report by Brian Mahoney of the Associated Press. Mahoney's source also confirms previous reports that the league seeks to cut the...

Stern Doesn't Expect Contentious All-Star Labor Negotiations

DALLAS -- With labor negotiations on the docket Friday at All-Star Weekend, there's sentiment in the NBA that the league is heading toward a lockout. Still, NBA commissioner David Stern said he doesn't believe there will be a negative tone when negotiating committees set up by the owners and the players' union get...

Stern: NBA to 'Compress the Difference' Between Rich and Poor Teams

Between now and the Hancocking of a new NBA collective bargaining agreement, every word uttered by commissioner David Stern takes on extra importance. (Well, to CBA nerds like me, at least.) In a BusinessWeek interview with Charlie Rose, Stern briefly discusses the financial state of the NBA, and how things might...

Report: Owners Seek to Cut NBA Salaries By 20 Percent

Two reports over the past week -- one by Frank Hughes of Sports Illustrated and a second appearing in Sports Business Daily (subscription required) -- suggest the coming formal proposal from NBA owners regarding the salary split in the league's new collective bargaining agreement could lop off as much as 20 percent from...