NBA: 6 Important Aspects Of The New Collective Bargaining Agreement

The NBA and NBPA have agreed on the new collective bargaining agreement that will guide the Association forward. Here’s how it could affect your favorite team.

The NBA collective bargaining agreement doesn’t really exist to casual fans. It affects every single thing about NBA teams, but knowledge of it is not necessary to enjoy watching LeBron James dominate an entire NBA Finals, or to watch and enjoy any team for that matter.

For those wanting to really understand the framework of the NBA, the CBA is important. Smart teams use every last detail of the CBA to put together their rosters in the most efficient way possible.

The details have changed now that there is a new CBA. As soon as Larry Coon is able to create a new CBA FAQ for the updated version, that will become the new place to go for questions on how salary cap and other rules work.

For now, details are slowly emerging on how the new agreement works. It doesn’t take effect until July, meaning there are still months of roster transactions to be made under the old CBA.

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To get an idea of how different things could be going forward, this list contains six of the most important aspects of the new CBA that have been reported thus far.

Much of the reported new CBA used to put together this piece comes from Tim Bontemps of the Washington Post and HeatHoops.