Re: The End

["Jim Meninno" <jim_meninno@hotmail.com>]

Douglas,

You are correct.  The proposal that was sent directly to the players at 
Christmas allowed for 10 year players to get up to 16.5 million per 
year. But, that's an average over a 7 year contract.  7-9 year players 
could get 12.8 million on average.  These figures rise dramatically over 
the life of the CBA and, in just two years a 7-9 year player could get a 
contract that averages 16.3 million.

A good many of the specifics of the League's proposal can be found at 
http://espn.go.com/nba/news/1998/981217/00999279.html.  Keep in mind, 
that these figures have been increased by Stern's "final" proposal, 
yesterday.  It's obvious, to me, that the league has set the upper 
limits on contracts that will never happen (7 years for a 10 year 
veteran?  Right!).  The real limit will be the 7-9 year category.  But I 
don't care.  They are offering 54% of revenues.  The lower the top 
salaries, then the better the median will be, which is what the union 
claim to be negotiating for.

I haven't seen any detailed account of any of the union's proposals.  If 
anyone has, please post the url.

Jim


>From: Douglas342@aol.com
>Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 10:41:50 EST
>To: josh_ozersky@yahoo.com, celtics@igtc.com
>Subject: Re: The End
>
>     I'd love to see someone do a side-by-side analysis of where the 
two sides
>stand at this point.  For some reason, I think they're closer than we 
tend to
>think.
>


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