There’s one problem for the NBA. And month by month it is getting more and more poignant. The new salary cap. The NBA and the NBA Players Association have been butting heads ever since the renewed TV deal. The NBA WILL have to pony up. But the offers that they’re giving are not flying with Michele Roberts and the NBAPA. But according to the IndyStar. Adam Silver is not concerned with what looks like will be another lockout.
“Believe it or not — I can’t speak for the union or anything — but it’s not something I’m talking to teams about yet,” Silver said. “I think it’s premature.”
Recently, the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) made the expected decision to reject the league’s proposal to smooth out the rising salary cap. The NBA’s new media rights deals, worth more than $2.6 billion per year, are expected to take form in the 2016-17 season as well as increase the salary cap. By “smoothing,” the league intended to avoid a dramatic spike in the cap in 2016-17 and progressively spread the money over the first few years of the new TV deal
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“We’re operating under the current CBA and building stage,” Silver said. “There will be a time for that but (now) it’s premature.“
This is such shaky ground I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if the lockout was for the entire season. If they can’t find a solution now. How are they going to find one then?
Silver may not be concerned with it. But he should be at some point.
