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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 พ.ย. 2022
- A lockout is when the owners and the players of a sports league can’t come to an agreement on how to operate the league.
Primarily this comes down to how to split up the money/basketball related income.
This agreement is called a collective bargaining agreement.
They exist in all labor unions, but the labor union we are talking about today is the NBPA.
The current CBA is set to expire at the end of the 2023-24 season which is coming up pretty quick.
Even though the NBA’s market cap is larger than it’s ever been and most people aren’t expecting another lockout I am. I’ll let you know why later in the video.
Every 6-7 years the CBA between the players and the owners expires and the two will have to come up with a new agreement and a new expiration date on that agreement.
Usually both sides feel like they’re getting screwed over and want to even things out and this is when lockouts happen.
The CBA typically expires on the last day of the season, so the players union and owners are usually negotiating long before that. Because neither of them want to end up in a position where games aren’t being played and everyone is stuck watching hockey.
The NHL actually had a lockout of their own that lasted the entire season.
It’s called a lockout because the players are locked out of their facilities. They are also not allowed to talk to the owners, coaches or staff.
Apparently if you’re employed by the team you are on the side of the owner.
Players also don’t get paid. It is in every player's deal that they stop getting paid in the event that there is a labor stoppage.
Up until 1995 the NBA was the only major sports league to not have a stoppage due to a labor dispute.
What kind of things are the players and owners not able to come to an agreement on?
The 1995 was a short lockout that began at the end of the season and lasted until September 12th meaning no games were missed.
Some of the things that came out of this lockout/CBA were a raise in salaries. The average salary for an NBA player went from 1.7 to 3 million dollars.
The rookie scale contract was also introduced. Which was actually a win for both owners and veteran NBA players.
Rookie contracts became cheap when before some rookies were signing huge long term deals before they even stepped on an NBA court.
For instance Glen Robinson signed a ten year rookie contract in 1994 with the bucks for 67 million dollars. Which was a large portion of the salary cap.
I think the veterans were a little salty that these rookies were getting huge long term deals and owners will jump at any opportunity to get a young guy on a cheaper contract.
The second lockout was the following summer in 1996, but it only lasted 4 hours.
The league got 50 million dollars from a television deal and the dispute was over how that money would be split. I don’t think either side had the energy to go through what they did the summer before, so they knocked it out pretty quickly.
The third lockout was in 1998 this one lasted so long that they had to shorten the season to 50 games and cancel the all star game.
The owners and the players had a CBA but the owners were allowed to reopen it and they did because they believed the players were getting %57 of the basketball related income when they were supposed to get %48
15 of the 29 teams claimed to have reported losses at the end of the season.
The outcome of this lockout resulted in a few new rules.
The luxury tax was introduced. This was a win for small market teams who didn’t have a lot of money. Large market teams could keep spending and that luxury tax money would turn into revenue for the smaller markets who didn’t go over the cap.
One negative outcome of this lockout was a building resentment from NBA fans and the NBA organization as a whole.
The last Lockout the NBA had was in 2011
The season was shortened to 66 games.
Many of the players with less lucrative salaries believed that the negotiations were more representative of the higher earning players and served no benefit to the majority of the league so they wanted to end the strike and get back to basketball and making money.
There was also infighting amongst the owners too. Jerry Buss and James Dolan were owners who were okay with paying the players more. They owned the Lakers and the Knicks, two icon brands that were making considerably more money than the Cavs Dan Gilbert and the Suns Robert Sarver, who were opposed to raising the salary cap.
I’m hoping with the new CBA that obviously there’s no lockout, but also that there are games played contingencies on players contracts.
With players like ben simmons, kyrie irving and especially kawhi leonard we see a lot of teams budgets tied up in guys who whether they don’t want to play or can’t play aren’t playing.
I’d like to see some of that money open up for g league players or 10 day contract guys to get an opportunity to play and make NBA money.
I want the players that are playing basketball to get paid. - กีฬา
Thanks for continuing to school me on how all this NBA stuff works. I agree with your games-played contingency, that definitely sounds like it could be a helpful motivator for a lot of guys who otherwise seem to have been lacking finding motivation to want to play. Here's hoping for no lockouts and that both sides can agree on making their distinct fortunes. You are easily one of my favorite TH-camrs, thankful for you and your channel. Hope you have a happy thanksgiving.
Yeah, I think fans like us ultimately watch basketball because we want to watch people who are the best at what they do and love the game dearly. When it starts to feel like they are more concerned about the money it loses the magic. I still understand it though. thanks Skylar! Hope you have a great thanksgiving too!
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god bless. thanks for making the trip over here!
Please continue making content these videos are so well put together very good summary
New video coming every week! Thanks for the encouragement, man!
Great content, how do you know so much about these NBA subjects ?
thanks! I appreciate it. I don't know much about the subject before the video. I pick a topic and then do the research. A lot of blogs and such. Sometimes I use wikipedia, but keep that a secret. haha
Excellent video. In the EPL, 25% of revenue is a "merit payment" where every additional place up in the standings nets you more revenue. I think this could help stop tanking, incentivize teams to actually try and win. I think the GP thing should only be for awards so like 70 games is needed to get all nba and like 48 games for all star, both of these things are tied into how big a contract you can sign already
I really like this idea. I love relegation as well. You really see the effects of a team losing status like in the show "Sunderland til I die."
@@whatslaps Relegation will probably never happen in US sports except for maybe MLS. Owners would never intentionally devalue their asset which is what relegation would do bc lower tier clubs get less tv money. I think it'd be great but the league is all about maintaining power and stability. In Scotland Rangers, the second biggest club in the league went bankrupt and had to be reformed and spend 4 years climbing back up. Everything from the salary cap to the draft is designed to stop this kind of thing from happening
yeah, it's gotta be there from the inception. No member of an organization would agree to increasing competition.
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Much appreciated! Thanks for the engagement fam
Im guessing drug testing was for public image. If one of your guys gets caught with Marijuana then its gonna look bad for your team, especially during that time period where Anti-Drug beliefs were very common
yeah, that's what I was thinking. just a different era.
even if the players are related to the staff they can stop them from being able to be with their family?
apparently there was some sort of situation during the NFL lockout with a father/son-in-law dynamic that made it so the family couldn't spend time together. pretty interesting stuff.
@@whatslaps they should have to legally be allowed to spend time together since they’re family that should override it
I concur
How about no play no pay
I think there's going to be some games played rules for all nba. Ultimately they should extend the roster to 20. Let more guys get an opportunity
@@whatslaps oh I absolutely agree on expanding the roster to 20 players to give them a chance to play.
@@dreamcage1801 product work get worse. It's a worse expansion league if that happens
@@rockysalvatore435 how?
The NBA plantation
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