Live broadcast bar, October 29th according to Woj, sources revealed that the league proposed to change the salary cap to hard cap during negotiations with the players’ union, but this plan was strongly opposed by the players’ union.
According to sources, NBA believes that the existing wage cap system cannot provide a fair competition environment for 30 teams and make more teams competitive, the spending gap between teams will make this imbalance in the league unsustainable. NBA told the players’ union that a basketball league with more balanced strength and flourishing flowers would have more income, and the salaries of the players would also be higher.
NBA’s current wage cap system is soft wage cap, and each team can use various special cases, such as Bird Rights Special cases and middle-class special cases, to break through the wage cap. If it becomes hard cap, the total expenditure of each team in each season cannot break through the hard cap line designated by the league in the current season at any time.
According to sources, some small market teams are also skeptical about hard cap. They are worried that even if there are hard cap, they will not be able to create a fair competition environment that NBA hopes to create, on the contrary, it will cause the small market team with strong soldiers and strong horses to face the end of team dismantling under the restriction of hard cap.
(Tielin)