Another meeting set for Tuesday
NEW YORK -- In a somewhat conciliatory gesture, NBA owners relaxed
their stance on guaranteed contracts Friday during the latest round of
collective bargaining negotiations to replace the labor agreement that
expires at the end of this month.
The players welcomed the move but cautioned there was still a wide gulf
to be bridged. The sides are still hundreds of millions of dollars apart
on how to split revenues, and the owners are still asking for a hard
salary cap system.
Another labor meeting is set for next Tuesday, and
commissioner David Stern said the onus will be on the players to make a
new economic proposal.
"The time to have an
optimistic or pessimistic view is at the close of the day Tuesday.
That's an important day," Stern said after the sides met for nearly five
hours. "Time is running out, but both parties seem, at least to me,
intent to make a deal by June 30."
The question of
guaranteed contracts has been called a "blood issue" in the past by
union director Billy Hunter, and the owners had earlier proposed a new
system in which all contracts would contain only partial guarantees.
這次NBA資方終於不再對無保障合同堅持, 但大體上仍希望實施硬工資帽政策.
雙方將於美國時間星期2於紐約進行下一次談判.
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