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: NBA owners have sent an initial proposal to the NBA Players Association
: and they are pushing for a "hard" salary cap, CBS Sports has learned.
: In addition, owners are requesting a drastic reduction in player salaries.
: The proposal was sent to the union earlier this week and seeks a reduction
: in the players' share of basketball-related income from 57 percent to well
: below 50 percent, according to a report.
: Owners also are seeking some aspects of a hard cap -- a departure from
: the current luxury-tax system -- and a reduction in the length and amount
: of max contracts.
: According to Ken Berger of CBS Sports, the two sides will meet during
: All-Star weekend for their first face-to-face bargaining session as they
: try to reach an agreement before the current deal expires in 2011.
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Foyle says owner proposal goes too far
BOSTON -- In the strongest comments yet by a players' union official since
NBA owners made a new collective bargaining proposal, first vice president
Adonal Foyle of the Orlando Magic said the offer put forth last week by
commissioner David Stern's office was "ludicrous."
That was the first word out of Foyle's mouth when he was asked Sunday to
characterize the owners' new labor proposal, which was given to the union
late last week as the sides took one of the first major steps toward
replacing the collective bargaining agreement that expires at the end of the
2010-11 season.
"I think it's a proposal that's far-reaching," said Foyle, the union's
second-in-command behind president Derek Fisher. "This [new proposal] has
gone too far. It wants a hard cap, it basically will create no middle class,
and which, in effect, means none of the Bird rules would apply," Foyle said,
referencing the so-called Larry Bird exception that allows teams to exceed
the salary cap to retain their own free agents.
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Foyle, who was a member of the union's negotiating committee during 2005
collective bargaining talks and was a player rep for the Golden State
Warriors during the 1998-99 lockout, went on to call the owners' proposal
"rash" and "unfair."
In addition to a hard salary cap to replace the current system of a "soft"
cap, with its accompanying luxury tax penalties for teams that exceed a
certain payroll threshold ($69.9 million this season), owners have asked that
contracts be shortened to a maximum of four years, Foyle said.
"I think when you look at the current CBA as it stands, it benefits both the
players and owners. This is an agreement where we can quabble with different
things within it, but it's an agreement that gives some things to both
parties involved," Foyle told ESPN.com.
"A system like that would be too restrictive, and it doesn't jibe with what
we think the league is. We have been willing to negotiate a guarantee that we
don't get over a certain threshold, and no other businesses do that. We hold
back 9 percent of our income so that the owners can make sure they are
covered on the back end. We have given up a lot of stuff, and they have given
up a lot of stuff, so I think to start off a negotiation in this rash a term,
I think it's unfair," Foyle said.
Foyle said the union was particularly taken aback by the gravity of the
owners' demands after the sides had held several cordial meetings in advance
of the league submitting the initial proposal.
"That's what I think was what most surprising to all of us. The meetings, in
our estimation, had been quite constructive. We were seeming to get a sense
of where everybody was, and we went through why we think [the current
agreement] should be extended," Foyle said. "But I think a proposal like this
is the first time they're saying: 'This is the way we want to go with the
league.' "
The union's executive board will meet with team player representatives at
All-Star Weekend to discuss the owners' proposal.
The union's executive director, Billy Hunter, has declined to publicly
comment on the owners' proposal since it arrived on his desk last week.
Fisher, too, has declined substantive comment.
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