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NBA and Players Union Agree on New CBA

Author Michael Cohen
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There will be no lockout this time around.

The National Basketball Association and the Players Union agreed to a new seven-year Collective Bargaining Agreement that will promote labor peace for the league for the foreseeable future.

The agreement puts down a hard salary cap on higher spending teams like the Warriors, Lakers and Celtics, with a second salary cap apron of $17.5 million in order to prevent richer teams from going nuts during free agency.

The new CBA is also said to create more trading and spending opportunities for lower rung teams. Stay tuned on that one.

The weirdest part of the deal is the addition of an in-season tournament, which for whatever reason would be added into the regular season schedule starting next year in the 2023-24 schedule. All 30 teams will participate until the final eight teams play single elimination in December.

All the games would count toward the 82-regular season game schedule. The Final Four and championship, would be held at a neutral site like Las Vegas with the championship regarded as an 83rd game added to the regular season schedule for two teams. What is the incentive of this?  The winning team gets an additional $500,000.

Why have an in-season tournament when the entire point of the regular season is to build toward — you know — the actual postseason at the end of the schedule? That’s one of many questions that is leaving many scratching their heads.

Michael Cohen is the News and Sports Director at Fox Sports Radio New Jersey and Magic 98.3 FM, as well as a radio production assistant with Fox and Magic in New Jersey. He started his career in Somerset in 2018 initially as a news fill-in at WCTC 1450 AM, and soon moved up to higher responsibilities in the ensuing years, assuming News & Sports Director title in 2021Prior to his time with Fox Sports New Jersey, Michael was play-by-play voice for New Jersey Jackals baseball, and as well as play-by-play and color for the College of Staten Island basketball (men and women), softball and baseball. Michael began his career as a news and sportswriter with the Jersey Journal of Hudson County.

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