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Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

2023 CBA Ideas with Keith Smith

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

Sports

4.62.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Fellow CBA dork Keith Smith of Spotrac joins to discuss the 2023 CBA negotiations. Keith talks to a ton of agents about CBA issues and provided a great perspective on the players’ side of the CBA negotiations. We also give our thoughts on whether the proposed changes would be good or bad for the game. Among the topics discussed: The owner’s desire for a hard cap Liberalizing the extension and max salary rules Changes to the two-way contract The possibility of players owning part of teams Players getting a piece of expansion fees Rolling over unused cap space from year to year

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Dan Feldman. If you're listening to this podcast with Nate and Keith Smith talking about the collective bargaining agreement, you're probably interested in the NBA salary cap.

0:11.0

You might want more NBA salary cap coverage and details involving the cap in podcast form. You might want to look at cap sheets for every team.

0:21.5

If that's the case, great way to do that subscribe to Dunktown Prime.

0:26.0

We've got cap sheets for every team updated regularly and of course Nate and Danny are frequently on the podcast talking about these topics and great depth and detail.

0:36.0

If you want to get more of this content, you can subscribe to Dunktown Prime at dunk.supportingcast.fm. Thanks for listening.

0:44.0

I had time to welcome on a guest that I've wanted to have on again. He came on a couple of years talking about the Orlando Magic. He's based in Orlando, but that's not the main portion of his work.

0:55.0

Kobe Price was available who is a magic-focused person we had him on, but instead I want to have Keith Smith on to talk about something that has been in the news a lot.

1:04.0

Both of our specialties even more his than mine at this point, the CBA. Keith, how are you doing, man?

1:09.0

I'm doing well thanks for having me.

1:10.0

Absolutely and of course your work at SpotTrack is essential for all of us.

1:15.0

Cap Dorx recording the actual salaries for public consumption.

1:20.0

I know that takes a lot of work and a lot of sourcing and a lot of calls.

1:24.0

So I definitely appreciate you doing that because I definitely, I can make a call here and there, but I definitely do not have the time to get all of that stuff out in the public domain.

1:32.0

So that is absolutely essential work and also essential work is getting this next CBA done.

1:40.0

The two parties can opt out on December 15th either side may, which means that somebody is going to inevitably.

1:48.0

And that would mean that this CBA will expire at the end of this season.

1:53.0

So before we get into just the general, some of the big issues that we have, we want to talk about ownership biggest issues, the biggest player issues,

2:01.0

some of the things that are more behind this guy that we would like to see.

2:04.0

What's your feeling on just the tenor of these talks so far, whether we could in fact have a work stoppage?

2:11.0

Yeah, in general, I don't think we're going to be at any risk of missing games that next year.

2:17.0

I think it's funny. I've had a few people who don't follow it the way we do are like, wait, they like so the season could just end in the middle of December.

2:25.0

And it's like, no, no, no, this season is fine. This just means next year could potentially be impacted.

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