Wednesday, August 24, 2011

The Chinese Basketball Association did what!! (In My Opinion)

  As many of you know there is a lockout in the NBA. A lockout is happening because the Collective Bargaining Agreement(CBA) between the NBA & NBAPA has expired & they have yet to make a new one. The CBA is what decides how much money & power each sides has. I also spells out rules for NBA contracts. Because there is a lockout NBA contract are not in effect. This means players can sigh with different teams not in the NBA. However when the lockout ends the NBA contract will be in effect again. Many players have begun signing deals in Eurpean basketball leagues. There was talk of some players including Kobe Bryant signing in China. Which leads me to the article below.

http://aol.sportingnews.com/nba/story/2011-08-18/chinese-basketball-association-bans-out-clauses-in-contracts-with-nba-players

  The Chinese Basketball Association which is government run has decided to ban opt out clauses. This means that NBA players who have contracts with years still on it are banned, because they would need a opt out clause for if & when the lockout ended. The reason they are doing this is because they want to focus on growing the Chinese game, and feel the the NBA stars would have hurt that. There are several reasons I disagree with this.

  1. NBA stars would help prestige. The CBA is not near as well known as the NBA or European league. This would increase known of it. 
  2. Having NBA stars play against Chinese players would help Chinese players improve. The Chinese National team lost to Duke. Duke is good but they are still a college team.
  3. The CBA would make more money. nuff said.
  4. NBA players would remember the CBA kindness & who knows maybe when so are too old for NBA they will go be stars in China, instead of Europe.
  5. This rule seems to be & there is no proof of this,the CBA is helping the NBA. Or at the least the CBA is scared of upsetting the NBA.
  6. Finally, it looks like the CBA is trying to show its power. They might not want to do that. Yao Ming career ended early due to injury. Many people feel that one of the reasons that happened is because Chinese Basketball wanted Yao to play for the National team during the NBA off seasons. It might not be a good idea to look like control freaks. In My Opinion.

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