Derek Fisher: "It's been long, but it's been weirdly quiet” - NBA Update
There hasn’t been much happening since lockout struck the league. Both the franchise owners and players union are quiet. It was expected earlier that the time after the lockout would be full buzz regarding the negotiations, posturing,
maligning, backbiting and many more.
However, it’s been almost a month now since the league imposed the lockout on the players after the expiry of the previous Collective Bargaining Agreement. Both the players union and franchise owners failed to reach an accord over
the CBA in their last meeting on June 31.
The President of the Players Association Derek Fisher also agrees with the notion, "It's been long, but it's been weirdly quiet. To push as hard as we did in the month of June to see if we could get a deal done prior to July 1,
it's essentially been crickets since then."
Now after of gap 30 days the first meeting between the players and the owners will going to take place on Monday. However, much isn’t expected of the meeting, as both sides will slowly get into action.
Fisher said, "It's more about getting the process started again. Kind of rolling the sleeves back up and starting to do the hard work that it's going to take to try and get something done between now and October 1st or when the
start of training camp would be. I don't know if there's going to be any major movement on Monday."
Although the meeting took place after a while, but certainly something is better than nothing. So this is a good omen for the league, as earlier in 1998 the league lost half of the season due to sluggishness in the talks’ procedure.
Hopefully this time dispute should be resolve before the next season schedule gets affected.
Another good thing that had happened in this regard is that players have shown leniency in the Basketball Related Income (BRI). The players are willing to drop it to 57 percent or little below only if the owners move away from
the hard salary cap.
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