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PBT: What can NBA learn from NFL's labor peace?

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 10:53 AM PDT

They have labor peace over in the NFL . Well, the players have to vote and some league veterans have a lawsuit that could throw a wrench in the works.

NBA Salary Cap Works Perfectly ... For One Of Its Goals

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 07:25 AM PDT

The NBA wants salary concessions in the name of competitive balance, while showing itself to be rather uninterested in the real fix for competitive imbalance. The NBA announced four minutes past 5 p.m. last Friday that  basketball-related revenues for the 2010-11 season came in at $3.8 million , nearly a 5 percent rise over the previous season. And that's why the NBA released that at 5:04 p.m ...

NBA Lockout: What a Hard Salary Cap Would Mean for the NBA

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 04:03 AM PDT

One of the more prominent issues being negotiated in the NBA 's new CBA (Collective Bargaining Agreement) is the league's salary cap. As it stands, the NBA employs a "soft" salary cap, allowing teams to spend more money than the cap states as long as the pay $1 in luxury tax for each dollar they spend over the cap.  Conventional thought is this allows big-market teams (for example the Lakers and ...

NBA's labor issues harder to reconcile

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 11:15 PM PDT

If the NBA lockout were to last as long as the NFL`s four-month version, it would run until Nov. 13. That`s 12 days after the defending champion Mavericks are scheduled to open their season vs.