[新聞] NBA's CBA talks get underway 2009/0 …
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By Chris Sheridan ESPN.com
NEW YORK -- The countdown to the next NBA lockout began in a way Tuesday,
with commissioner David Stern and a group of 10 team owners making it
abundantly clear that they will not extend the current labor deal into the
2011-12 season.
The owners met with players' union representatives for nearly 3½ hours at a
Manhattan hotel in the first formal round of collective bargaining talks
toward the next NBA labor agreement.
The current deal will run for two more seasons, and the owners must notify
the players on Dec. 15, 2010, whether they intend to extend the deal for an
additional season.
But the message from the owners Tuesday was this: They're opting out.
And so began the countdown to June 30, 2011, when the current labor agreement
-- the one that raised the age limit and made permanent the luxury tax --
will expire.
"We knew that coming into today, and that's why we agreed to meet today -- to
get this process started. We don't plan on waiting until 2011 to have the
talks we need to have to keep this relationship a strong one," players union
president Derek Fisher said.
Fisher, elected in June to a four-year term as union president, was joined by
union director Billy Hunter, staff attorneys and union negotiating council
members Theo Ratliff, Roger Mason Jr., Etan Thomas, Keyon Dooling and Maurice
Evans. Chris Paul, Adonal Foyle and James Jones were unable to attend.
The owners were represented by Peter Holt of the San Antonio Spurs, the head
of their labor negotiating committee, James Dolan of the New York Knicks,
Jeannie Buss of the Los Angeles Lakers, Dan Gilbert of the Cleveland
Cavaliers, Wyc Grousbeck of the Boston Celtics, Clay Bennett of the Oklahoma
City Thunder, Robert Sarver of the Phoenix Suns, Glen Taylor of the Minnesota
Timberwolves, George Shinn of the New Orleans Hornets and Portland Trail
Blazers president Larry Miller.
Fisher said the owners laid out their argument that under current economic
conditions, too many franchises are losing too much money to continue
operating under the present system.
Neither side made any proposals, with the meeting described as more
introductory than substantive. No owners or league executives commented,
although the league office and the players union issued a joint statement
calling the talks "cordial and productive."
"They continued to point that overall our game is in good shape in terms of
our fans, our television ratings, and even though our attendance was down in
some areas, it still was the third-highest attendance in league history, so
there are a lot of foundation bellweather numbers that are strong with our
game," Fisher said.
Stern has said about half of the league's 30 teams are unprofitable, and
several owners have lost enormous amounts of wealth in the global financial
meltdown of the past nine months.
Still, many of the strongest teams (Lakers, Boston, Cleveland, San Antonio,
Orlando, Utah) have shown a willingness to spend themselves into luxury tax
territory this summer in pursuit of a championship, while struggling
franchises in Memphis, Sacramento and New Jersey have been shedding staff and
cutting costs, and the Charlotte Bobcats are one of several teams with a For
Sale sign posted.
"There are still obviously some teams that have some issues," Fisher said.
"We didn't get into specific teams and their specific issues today, but it
was a big picture look at where the league has been the last four years since
this collective bargaining agreement began, and then where we think the
league will be next year after some of the economic data comes in."
The sides said they planned to set up another bargaining meeting before
training camps begin in late September.
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