Trade requests in the NBA are commonplace, and we are likely to see at least one All-Star caliber player ask out of their current tea. The most notable recent example of this was Ben Simmons, who refused to play basketball for the Philadelphia 76ers despite being under a long-term contract.
The new Collective Bargaining Agreement between the players and owners has officially been signed, and the 676-page document severely impacts the flexibility of players asking out of unhappy situations and using the media to do so. Specifically, a clause that was seen on page 147 of the agreement.
“Any player (or, for clarity, any player representative or person acting with authority on behalf of a player) who publicly expresses a desire to be traded to another Team shall be subject to a fine and/or a suspension. The maximum fine that may be imposed by the NBA on a player pursuant to the foregoing shall be $150,000.”
Public trade requests are going to start disappearing, but that doesn’t mean players won’t request trades. They’ll definitely do it privately or through leaked reports where a ‘source’ reveals that they’re unhappy. All it does is help the league be able to enforce a punishment when a player publicly agitates for his team to move him.
How Is The New CBA Looking?
By now, everyone has talked about all the financial rules that’ll impact team building moving forward. But the new CBA has more substance beneath the surface.
Things as small as the players’ daily meal allowance on the road have changed how many interviews players are required to give as media commitments, among other things. There are other negative additions, such as allowing players to play two games on the same day in different time zones if a back-to-back ends up making that possible.
Thankfully, the CBA also reads like it’s expecting the game to grow steadily with every passing season. Player contracts are going to become even more lucrative every season and with the penalties placed on overspending, the salary cap is also expected to keep going up. There is a lot of bad, but there is some good sprinkled into this agreement which will see us through the decade.
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