The new NBA Collective Bargaining Agreement has already influenced the offseason. We’ve seen record-breaking spending in free agency while other teams such as the Boston Celtics felt the sting while trying to build their rosters.
The Phoenix Suns strategically navigated the CBA to make moves that might come back to bite them, and veterans and mid-level players expressed concerns about the effect of the CBA on their earnings.
The CBA’s effects on team dynamics and young players’ contracts raise questions for the future, while some of the teams it was created to punish, such as the Suns and Golden State Warriors, do not seem fazed by its punitive aspects just yet.
How has the league’s new CBA affected the 2023 offseason so far?
On an episode of ESPN’s “NBA Today” from earlier this summer, the hosts dive into the impact of the new CBA so far — check it out in the clip embedded below.
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