Good Morning.
We are going to talk about the NBA´s player strike.
First, the NBA is the acronym for National Basketball Association, it is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada. It is an active member of the USA Basketball Association (USAB), which is recognized by the International Basketball Federation which is the National Governing Body for Basketball (NGB)in the United States. The NBA is one of the four major North American Professional sports leagues.
The league was founded in New York City on June 6, 1946 as the Basketball Association of America (BAA) and adopted its name National Basketball Association in 1949 after fusing with the rival National Basketball League (NBL.
The problem, is that on Thursday the NBA said, that they will recommend the start of a lockout, after the players and officials fail to reach agreement on a new collective agreement.
The deputy commissioner, Adam Silver, said that the owners failed to push his proposal to reach an average salary of seven million dollars per player in six years. The current average salary is about five million dollars.
The entry of a lockout would risk a part of the 2011-2012 season.
"I'm not scared, but resigned by the potential damage that this may cause our league," said NBA Commissioner David Stern. The news comes only two weeks after the Dallas Mavericks won the championship this year. Stern told reporters that the season was notlucrative for most of the 30 team owners.
The entry of a lockout would risk a part of the 2011-2012 season.
"I'm not scared, but resigned by the potential damage that this may cause our league," said NBA Commissioner David Stern. The news comes only two weeks after the Dallas Mavericks won the championship this year. Stern told reporters that the season was notlucrative for most of the 30 team owners.
The current contract between players and the league expires at midnight on Thursday. The last stop of the NBA was recorded in 1998.
Negotiations are expected to begin again in two weeks.
Negotiations are expected to begin again in two weeks.
The Dallas Mavericks as the new NBA champions ended the 2010-11 season and now the future of the world's best basketball is unknown also its future as an economic model and management within the American professional sports.
While Heat tries to recover from loosing the title of champions at the offices of the NBA commissioner David Stern, the activity is frenetic.
Stern and his team have seen with satisfaction how the interest of the fans for the NBA Finals stage reminded them of Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant together with the Lakers, but they also know that if they do not agree to sign a new collective agreement, the competition for next season is in jeopardy.
The players, through their legal representatives, as the lawyer Jeffrey Kessler, consider that the situation is very strange for fans to understand.
After the Mavericks won last Sunday, in the sixth game of the NBA Finals 105-95, the best basketball sports spectacle in the world entered a recession and uncertainty is the dominant note.
Owners and players have very different points of view, as demonstrated in previous negotiations over a new collective agreement to replace the one that ends next June 30.
Each party assures that it intends to reach an agreement through negotiation.
Players say that the ownershave to be ready for an unilateral
lockout if no new agreement occures the same as the one that currently exists within the National Football League (NFL).
The last time that these problems closed a camp was in the 1998-99 season, 50 games were not played this situation could be repeated.
This season over 300 million dollars will be lost and NBA players will try to obtain a signfiicant change in the current financial structure.
The owners of the 30 teams are focused on signing shorter contracts and less security for the players.
Billy Hunter, executive director of the players union, has said that the
aspirations of the owners are"unrealistic" and hopes that the meetings scheduled for this week's positions are closer together.
Apart from the NBA, this year another American sportassociation has experienced a lockout, the NFL professional football league, which remained on strike since 11 March to 25 July, this resulted in the cancellation of the spring season.
