Extending the effort to help international players, NBPA will introduce One Court Milan from 14 to 16 June, as announced Monday. Among others, Danilo Gallinari, Jusuf Nurkic, and Thanasis Antetokounmpo will be present in Milan, Italy.
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Adrian Wojnarowski: ESPN Sources: The …
Adrian Wojnarowski: ESPN Sources: The NBA and National Basketball Players Association are holding a preliminary meeting on the collective bargaining agreement in Boston today. Both can opt out of current deal in December, but sides are preparing for serious talks on a new CBA across coming months.
Adam Silver hoping to have a new CBA in 2022
Tim Bontemps: Adam Silver said it is a bit premature to say the NBA & NBPA will be able to agree to a new CBA before both sides have the ability to opt-out in December. However, Silver said the hope is it will be the case, like it was when the league last agreed to a CBA with the NBPA in 2016.
Keyon Dooling arrested in relation to former players fraud case
A former vice president of the National Basketball Players Association was arrested Wednesday and added to a criminal case in which 18 former NBA players were charged with illegally pocketing millions of dollars by defrauding the league’s health and welfare benefit plan. The rewritten indictment added Keyon Dooling to the case first brought in October, when federal officials said a number of former NBA players combined to collect about $2.5 million from the benefit plan.
“It is a case concerning his time at …
“It is a case concerning his time at the National Basketball Players Association, prior to him joining our organization. He has been put on paid administrative leave,” the Jazz said. “Due to the ongoing legal process, we will refrain from further comment.”
Sarah Todd: The release from the DOJ …
NBPA executive Tamika Tremaglio director supporting NBA expansion
Tamika Tremaglio, the executive director of the National Basketball Players Association, said she is in favor of the NBA expanding beyond the league’s current 30 teams. Her comments came Tuesday during SportTechie’s State Of The Industry conference at One World Trade Center in New York City. “We do want more teams, I think it’s good for the business,’’ Tremaglio said during her opening keynote conversation with SBJ executive editor Abraham Madkour. “Ideally, we hope that there will be more teams popping up in the U.S.’’
Tamika Tremaglio expects current CBA to remain until 2024
Tremaglio has led the NBPA since January. The NBA’s current collective bargaining agreement runs through the 2023-24 season, although both the league and union have opt-out clauses following the 2022-23 season. Tremaglio said Tuesday that she does “absolutely not” foresee either side exercising that opt-out.
She also acknowledged some “privacy …
She also acknowledged some “privacy concerns” regarding player-tracking data collected through wearable devices or the league’s Second Spectrum optical camera system. “It’s something that is used so that [players] can hone in on their skills, recognize when they are exhausted and when they can do things better,” Tremaglio said. But there are still some privacy concerns. We have to look at what that will mean going forward. It is certainly something that we are exploring.”
Adrian Wojnarowski: The National …
Adrian Wojnarowski: The National Basketball Players Association promoted Ron Klempner to General Counsel. Along with new Executive Director @ttremaglioNBPA, Klempner will again play a leading role in the looming CBA negotiations – a role’s he had in six rounds of talks with the NBA since the 1990’s.