It is becoming more and more difficult for the NBA to resume in December. The pressure of a faction of the players, including some of the main stars of the best League in the world, is preventing the negotiations from moving forward, and Adam Silver is running out of time, as he has recognized the same in statements collected by the medium CBS Sports. The North American competition, which foresees losses of between 500 and 1,000 million dollars, wants to start as soon as possible and thus be able to have more games (up to 72, which could be reduced to 50 if it started in January), in addition to enjoying of the lucrative Christmas day, but the players consider that they will have little time to rest and do not want to hit the track so soon.
For now, the decision to terminate the current collective agreement has been moved, something that is very unlikely to happen and that could be justified in the event of force majeure, to November 6, so the deadlines continue to be delayed. Free agency would start in less than a month (December 1) if the League starts on December 22, so that the deadlines are increasingly fair and the margin of the competition to make a decision runs aground due to the pressure of the players, firm in opening hostilities from January and thus having a margin of rest that they consider suitable, at least, for the NBA and Conference finalists, who have less margin. Being the best teams from last season, their opinion is taken into account, as is their influence. It could be said that the rest of the franchises, 26 of 30, will have a normal rest, of about three and a half months or more, so the start date that the NBA shuffles does not affect everyone equally.
Michele Roberts, in an interview with Shams Charania for The Athletic, has assured that it is complicated that everything can be done on time, and has insisted that “the overwhelming response from players to start on December 22 has been negative“The negotiations, at the moment, continue to advance while veiled complaints such as those of Danny Green Y LeBron James cover covers. The complications that the League has are legitimate if we consider that it is not worth starting the season if the stars are going to take the first month very calmly, and that there is no use hurting teams like the reigning champions, the Lakers , with a forced first month to which they will arrive in good shape and that these franchises have a lower record than they should at the end of the course. Many doubts and some solutions that we will know in the coming days, when we will know when the NBA really begins.
