After the NBA owners and NBAPA met yesterday again in New York to prevent the inevitable Lockout we found out that no progress was made and that a meeting was scheduled on wednesday in which the owners could potentially vote to implement a work stoppage. However what many people seem to forget in this ongoing rift is that the disagreement is not between all the NBA owners and the players yet the Owners have a rift between themselves.
The main issue that is preventing a deal from being reached is the issue of a hard cap vs a soft cap a hard cap would have a number set to be about 46 million that would not allow teams to have the abilty to have 3 close to maximum deal contracts and potentially make teams such as the Miami Heat, Los Angeles Lakers, New York Knicks, New Jersey Nets, Oklahoma City Thunder from improving their teams and cause the less competitve teams such as the Washington Wizards, Sacremento Kings Cleveland Cavaliers to add talent with still a restrictive cap space.
Though the players have constantly maintained that they do not want to have a hard cap, Owners of current competitve teams do not want a hard cap as well and will do whatever they can to keep the current system. Those owners as well as the majority of players like the current system that involes all teams flexibilty to improve and create strong teams. As the players are united more than ever according to Union president Derek Fisher, the same can not be said for the owners which makes this whole labor dispute entirely ridiculous.
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