How did the NBA shut down and why did the NBA shut down?

"NBA suspension" is a unique term for the NBA, which refers to a situation in which sports leagues are suspended for various reasons.

On July 1, Beijing time, according to Yahoo Sports, after three hours of negotiations between labor and management in New York, the two sides confirmed that they could not reach an agreement. The NBA league will officially shut down at 12 noon Beijing time today.

League CEO Billy Hunt announced on Thursday afternoon local time that a new collective bargaining agreement had not been agreed between the players and the owner. Whether it's player wages or soft and hard salary caps, there is a big disagreement between the two sides. "There was a big numerical disagreement on many of the items.

We still can't figure out the point of balance. "Hunter said.

The old collective bargaining agreement will expire at 11:59 a.m. Beijing time today. Just yesterday, the Coalition Committee has drafted the official shutdown authorization document, and when the time comes, the committee will officially start the shutdown.

NBA commissioner David Stern said the result was:"It's a little sad"。After the official shutdown, there was no contractual relationship between the team and the players, and the players were not able to negotiate and trade with the team.

Two of the four major U.S. sports leagues will be locked in a standoff. The NFL (National Football League) shutdown in March, and in recent weeks, labor and management have been vigorously negotiating to reach a new agreement to avoid the same shutdown as the NFL, which is the common trigger point of this collective bargaining negotiations. In the latest round of negotiations, the players' union proposed to keep the existing soft wage cap, but agreed to cut the players' total wages by $500 million over the next five years.

The bosses wanted the new deal for a 10-year period and proposed a flexible pay cap. Under the plan, the total salary of NBA teams would be limited to $62 million, which also includes various exceptions. But because NBA teams can't go beyond the salary cap under the new wage system, the flex salary cap is still a hard salary cap in the eyes of players.

In the final round of negotiations, both labor and management made concessions. The owners have said that the player's salary will not be less than $2 million a year for the next 10 years of the contract, but a new deal has not yet been reached.

Obviously, we're disappointed right now. "** Said President Adam Silvo. The last time the league was shut down was in the 1998-99 season, when the regular season shrunk to just 50 games.

However, CEO Hunt said it was too early to discuss whether the game would be scaled down. "I hope it doesn't get to that point"Hunter said. "Next month, hopefully, we can both take a step back and solve this problem. "

Spurs player Matt Matt Bonner, vice president of the players' union, said:"We tried to avoid a shutdown, but unfortunately we were never able to reach an agreement. "Someone among the bosses stood up and said,"This is already the best solution we can give"。

1. Public facilities such as arenas are closed to players: This rule means that if players want to maintain their fitness in the summer, they must find their own gyms and basketball courts, and cannot use the stadiums that belong to the team. Kobe Bryant's sweating at Staples will no longer exist, and he will only be able to train silently at home.

2. Team staff such as trainers and team doctors are not allowed to contact the players: these trainers and team doctors belong to the team, and now they are suspended, and the two sides are opposed, so the players cannot accept their services, and if they want to serve accordingly, they must pay for the trainers themselves. This is a very fatal blow for players who have just undergone surgery.

3. The players will no longer be supervised by the team: When there is no shutdown, the team will supervise the players in the offseason, such as their physical condition and training status, etc., but after the shutdown the supervision will no longer exist, so the possibility of a sharp decline in form caused by the alcohol abuse of Camp in '98 is greatly increased.

4. Player transfer transactions halted: Due to the lack of corresponding regulations, player transfer transactions were forced to stop, and the team's plans to bring in reinforcements in the summer needed to be postponed indefinitely.

5. Trials, Meetings, and Signings of Free Agents Ceased: Similar to the above, it will be impossible for teams to find new owners from the free agent market, as teams are not allowed to conduct trials, talks, and eventual signings of free agents during the shutdown.

6. Summer League Cancellations: Summer League is an important stage for scouting rookies and fringe players, and those young people who want to hit the NBA dream will be hit hard after the cancellation.

7. Player wages may be damaged: In the '98 shutdown, the Arbitration Association finally ruled on October 20, ruling that even if the player contract was protected, the owners did not have to pay the players' wages during the lockdown. Such a verdict has given the bosses more confidence in the negotiations, and the players have less confidence.

If the last suspension had been followed, the players' wages would not have been guaranteed.

8. Insurance issues for players to participate in international competitions: In the past, players participating in international competitions, such as the Olympics and the World Championships, etc., must purchase an injury insurance, which is an agreement between the NBA and FIBA (FIBA), but this agreement also expired on July 1, and due to the shutdown, the NBA will not be able to negotiate with FIBA on behalf of the players, so the insurance of players returning to China has become a big problem.

9. Preseason and training camp may be postponed or cancelled: In the last shutdown, the cancellation of preseason and training camp was finally announced in September, although it is still a little early from this point in time, but if no agreement is reached for a long time, the preseason will follow in the footsteps of the summer league, then the normal operation of the league will definitely be greatly affected.

This is an official statement.

The expiration of the collective bargaining agreement did not result in a win-win system, which resulted in huge financial losses for our team. "We need a sustainable business model that will enable all 30 teams to compete for championships, pay players fairly, and earn significant financial returns under good management." ”

We have proposed a number of packages to the players' union, including a player revenue share of up to $2 billion a year, which translates to an annual salary of almost $5 million per player, and the league's revenue will grow along with it. "The principles of the plan also want to further connect the relationship between performance and income. ”

During the shutdown, all players will not be paid, the team will cease all contract negotiations, contract extensions and deals, and all team facilities will be closed to players, so summer training camps, warm-up matches and trials will be postponed indefinitely until a new contract is negotiated between employers and management.

The negotiations didn't come together.

Players want to maintain the current system and raise their pensions.

The league says most owners are losing money and want to lower the salaries their players receive and implement a hard salary cap (no more than this can be paid by each team).

The main thing is that these two places can't be talked about. As a result, the shutdown will be suspended, and the next two weeks of negotiations will determine how long it will last, and it is expected that one side will have to make a big concession.

June 30 did not negotiate the result, has been officially suspended, if not solved before October, the new season may shrink or even directly incomparable, the most likely is the same as the previous time, first sign a compromise agreement, let the season go on, a few years later, but it depends on how the labor and management negotiate.

Since the salary negotiations between the owners and players in the NBA have not been negotiated, the summer league has been suspended for the time being, and it will be seen how it will develop in the future, and I don't know if it will stop in the end.

The question of money has not been discussed, as far as I know.

You have to let people rest and rest.

It all comes down to the truth: money!

Labor and management cannot agree on the issue of money.

The reason why the NBA has been hit by several shutdowns is because of economic interests. The first time the NBA faced the problem of a shutdown was in 1964, when the players' union president Heinsohn called on players to boycott the game as a means of pressuring the NBA officials because players' interests were not protected and the status of the players' union was not recognized. An hour before the All-Star break, a number of stars, including Chamberlain and Russell, announced their withdrawal from the game and refused to participate in the upcoming event.

The boycott alarmed then-NBA commissioner Walton Kennedy, who agreed to negotiate with the players' union after the All-Star break, which made the All-Star Game a success. Negotiations ensued between labor and management, and the NBA officially recognized the status of the players' union, and the players won the protection of their interests.

The NBA completed its merger with ABA in 1976, when the NBA ruled that players who had not graduated from college could not enter the player, and Spencer Haywood was deemed ineligible to play in the NBA by the NBA officials due to his abandonment of school, and Haywood's contract was invalid. After the news broke, Paulo Silas, then president of the players' union, considered it an act of discrimination. On the one hand, the players' union called on the players to demonstrate, and on the other hand, took the NBA to court.

The court ruled that Haywood had the right to play in the NBA, and labor and management reached an agreement to allow players from poor families to enter the NBA early.

With the rapid development of the NBA, the annual salary of players has skyrocketed, which has made the appetite of players grow. In 1994, the top pick Glenn Robinson actually asked for a 100 million yuan contract, which made it very difficult for the Milwaukee Bucks who selected Robinson, and Bucks owner Kerr suffered insomnia and almost overdosed on sleeping pills. Unable to tolerate the player's big mouth, the management demanded a hard salary cap and restrictions on rookie contracts during the 1994 labor negotiations.

In order to avoid a shortening of the season, labor and management temporarily compromised, and the 1994-95 season went smoothly. At the end of the 1994-95 season, the NBA announced a lockdown, and after another war of words, the two sides reached a new collective bargaining agreement. Both sides took a step back, the hard salary cap was not adopted, and player contracts were restricted.

The 1998 shutdown was unprecedented, and the management, frustrated with the high salaries of the players, demanded that the collective bargaining agreement be amended to limit the maximum salary of the players. The players' union did not accept the demands of the management, and several negotiations between the two sides were inconclusive, resulting in the postponement of the start of the 1998-99 season. The end result was that the management made some concessions, saying that as long as they accept the maximum salary limit, they will increase the salary package of middle and lower players.

Under pressure, the players' union decided to accept the advice of the management and signed a new collective bargaining agreement, which allowed the 1998-99 season to kick off.

In the 2005 labor negotiations, the players' union also threatened the management with a boycott, but the two sides reached an agreement through negotiations to avoid a season cutback.

If LZ wants to know more details, it will start from the seventies and eighties of the last century. In fact, in the seventies and eighties of the last century, the NBA was a very unpopular league, full of all kinds of fights, brawls, drug abuse and other negative events, whether it was the NBA owners or players did not make much money. When the current NBA commissioner, David Stein, came to power and tried to change that, he vigorously promoted star policies, changed the atmosphere of the league, and transformed the NBA into what we see now, and the NBA gradually increased its income.

When the owner of the team earns more, the player will ask for a salary increase, so the player's salary has risen from two or three million for the Magic in the 80s to $30 million for Jordan. In this case, the owner of the team will naturally not be able to bear it, and there will be a disagreement between the player and the owner on the distribution of benefits, that is, there will be a disagreement between the labor side and the investor, which is a labor dispute. Because of labor disputes, NBA players were unwilling to play under unfair distribution of benefits, so everyone played, and the NBA was suspended.

To put it simply, the owner wants to keep the players' wages down so that the team can make a profit. Because player wages account for the majority of the team's expenses, reducing player wages allows for more investment in other aspects of the team. (Mainly small team owners, like the Lakers, are very profitable every season).

In layman's terms, players are overpaid, causing the vast majority of team owners to lose money. If the bosses don't do it, they ask for an increase in the market quota of various tickets, mascots, jerseys and other profits, which is equivalent to reducing the player's salary in disguise, so the two sides fought. The NBA stopped.

At 12:01 on July 1, 2011, the old collective bargaining agreement officially expired. After nearly three hours of final negotiations, the players' union and management representatives still have not agreed on a new collective bargaining agreement.