What s the latest news on the NBA shutdown?

Tencent Sports News On October 25, Beijing time, according to the "Sports News Network", in the nearly four months since the NBA (Weibo) officially announced its shutdown on July 1 this year, about 400 NBA officials and employees of various teams have suffered layoffs. At a time when the U.S. economy is not optimistic, the NBA shutdown has caused many people to lose their jobs.

According to professional data provided by a league insider, about 200 people who work at the official NBA headquarters have lost their jobs, and the number that is roughly equal to those who have lost jobs on 30 teams. Among them, the large-scale layoffs of the Los Angeles Lakers once caused a sensation in the league. At the beginning of the shutdown in July this year, the Lakers laid off more than 20 employees at once, including Ronnie Lester, a veteran employee who worked for the Lakers for 24 years and worked his way up from the bottom to the assistant general manager.

The league officials do not comment on this figure, because they know very well that any comment will eventually bring harm to themselves. The cancellation of the first two weeks of the regular season actually cost the league hundreds of millions of dollars, and if collective bargaining is not reached soon, the regular season will be canceled for at least another two weeks, if not more.

Last summer, the number of layoffs for officials and teams was 114, and this year that number has nearly tripled. According to data at the time, the 114 employees accounted for 11 percent of the alliance's total workforce, and their layoffs saved the alliance a total of $50 million. But that's really just a week's worth of regular season revenue.

And of the 400 people who have now been laid off, even if the NBA shutdown is over, they basically don't have much chance to return to the league. In addition, new contracts may make some jobs cancelable or irrelevant, making it more difficult for the league to find employment.

More seriously, if collective bargaining delays and the NBA continues to shut down, more people may lose their jobs. "If the NBA doesn't officially kick off in January, more people will be out of work. Bill Stoughton, a well-known sports business consultant, said, "Teams that have lost a lot of revenue have to think about cutting staff again. ”

As a direct result of the breakdown in labor negotiations, more NBA games were canceled for the new season. According to the United States**, the NBA will be prepared to continue canceling the two-week regular season. Due to the cancellation of the first two weeks of the 2011 and 2012 regular seasons, the season opener will now be postponed to November 28, and will continue to be postponed if the collective bargaining negotiations continue to go well.

Currently, 102 games have been lost in the 2011 and 2012 seasons.

In fact, it is not only the players who have been affected by the shutdown, many of the staff involved in the NBA have lost their jobs. According to U.S.** statistics, the NBA league has lost about 400 jobs since its shutdown began on July 1.

Last week, labor and management held a marathon negotiation for 30 hours for three consecutive days, but there was still no good news for the fans. Cohen, the mediator of the U.S. federal **, who came to mediate, also announced his withdrawal from the negotiations, which also made the outside world generally pessimistic about the new NBA season.

According to people familiar with the matter, in addition to the main issue of basketball-related revenue sharing, there are also many other aspects of the overall salary system between the two sides. For example, there are considerable differences between the two sides on issues such as middle-class exceptions, restricted free-market agreements, and annual salary matching trading rules. In addition, the issue of maximum salary has always been one of the points of contention between the two sides.

The management intends to significantly reduce the increase in the maximum salary, while the players want to retain the current maximum salary system. Labor and management are at loggerheads on these issues, which has also led to slow progress in negotiations.

According to Billy Hunt, executive chairman of the players' union, the management have made it clear that negotiations on the wage cap will not be put on the table unless the labour side can accept a 55-5 wage distribution system. "If we have the next negotiation, it means that we have accepted a fifty-fifty split," he said.

As we have already said, if we cannot agree on the distribution of wages, we will not have the next negotiations. In the latest negotiations, the labor side reduced its share from 53 to 52 5 and expressed its reluctance to do so.

Both sides were tough, and the regular season was lost in a stalemate. According to a number of U.S.** reports, the two sides already held some informal ** meetings over the weekend and are expected to resume negotiations this week.

It's not optimistic, it is estimated that the new season will continue to be postponed, negotiations are still continuing, and the boss's attitude continues to be tough.

Today's negotiation should be the ultimate negotiation, the mediator also participated, the management has conceded to provide the players with 49%-51% of the distribution method, and has given the plan to the labor Let the labor make a decision by Wednesday, if the labor still insists on 52%, the management will only give 47% in the future, that is, force the labor to agree! Haha, looking forward to Wednesday! All of the above are hand-made, hard work!

The latest news is that the November tournament has been cancelled, and the tournament will probably not be known until a while of negotiations, if there is no one in December... Basketball fan··· It's going to collapse...

All the games in the month leading up to the regular season have been cancelled and new negotiations are awaited.

The Christmas war is probably not going to happen.

It is expected that the shutdown will not stop until after the Chinese New Year at the earliest.

Now 50% of the profit distribution players do not agree.

It's just that the ratio of labor and management is not negotiable. The management side wants to divide fifty-fifty, and the labor side wants it. Everything else is pretty much talked!

Cancel all tournaments for the first month (November)!

Now the boss and the players are not compromising, the situation is not optimistic.

Maybe the whole season will be suspended!!

What can you do with a month-long regular season?

Let's see who makes it to the end.

Negotiate the wages of the players and the bosses.

If the team's income is less than the expenditure, they will ask for a salary cut, and how can the players agree to it, and it will be suspended!

Personally, I don't think the benefits are good. To be adjusted!

Because the labor dispute has not been resolved!