The NBA and the players’ union have reached a new labor agreement last month, which will last for 7 years and will be implemented from the 23-24 season.

As for this newly reached agreement, many journalists also disclosed many of its contents. Compared with the previous agreement, the new agreement has made many changes to NBA’s labor system, one of which is particularly eye-catching, that is, the second local tyrant line. Today, my cousin wants to take everyone to have a detailed look at the content of this local tyrant line and analyze its influence on various teams.

What is the second local tyrant line

In the last edition of the labor agreement, there were four lines in the total salary of the team, namely, the poor ghost line, the salary cap, the tax line and the local tyrant line. The new labor agreement retains four lines in the previous version of the agreement and adds one line, which is the second local tyrant line. According to the new labor agreement, the specific amount of the second local tyrant line is the tax line plus 17.5 million US dollars.

What are the consequences of exceeding the second local tyrant line?

After reading the specific content of the second local tyrant line, let’s look at the consequences of the total salary exceeding the second local tyrant line. According to the new labor agreement, teams with total salary exceeding the second local tyrant line will face the following penalties:

1. Will be deprived of mini middle class special cases

2. Cash cannot be sent in the transaction

3. The first round after 7 years cannot be sent out in the transaction (for example, the first round signing in 2030 cannot be traded in the 23-24 season)

4. Unable to sign players in the buyout market

5. Unable to get more salary in the transaction, that is, after the transaction is completed, the total salary of the team can only be reduced and cannot be increased.

Among these five punishment measures, the more serious ones are Article 1, Article 3 and Article 4. Let’s focus on these three. The first is the first one. According to the regulations of the league, each team has a special case of middle class every year, which can be used to sign one or more players, it doesn’t matter if the salary exceeds the salary cap after signing the contract. Objectively speaking, this regulation still allows the teams with high salaries to make a good offer every year. For example, the Clippers signed Wall last summer, and the Warriors introduced dicvenzenzzo last summer, the Lakers signed Lonnie Walker during the offseason last year. According to the new labor agreement, there will be no middle-class exception for teams whose salary (the total salary of the team after signing the contract) exceeds the second local tyrant line.

Then there is Article 3. According to NBA trading regulations, a team can trade the first round in the next 7 years at most, and cannot trade the first round of signing for two consecutive years. According to the new labor agreement, high-salary teams will not be able to trade their picks in the next 7 years, which undoubtedly weakens their ability to do transactions.

The last is Article 4, which cannot sign players in the buyout market. Fans who often watch NBA all know that every year after All Stars to the beginning of April is the time period when each strong team is on Taobao in the buyout market, and sometimes there are heavyweight contracts, such as the end of February this year, the Clippers signed weishao in the buyout market. However, under the restriction of the new labor agreement, high-salary teams will no longer be able to conduct Taobao operations in the buyout market.

Losers under the second local tyrant line rule

After watching the punishment, let’s take a look at the losers under this rule. I believe that bar friends can also draw a conclusion after reading the analysis, that is, this rule is aimed at Giants or giant teams from inside to outside, it is completely a rule tailored to fight against rich teams. What are the main ways for the giant team to strengthen? There are no more than three, one is that there is a middle class exception available every year, and the second is the first round after six or seven years (for example, the Lakers’ previous chips chasing Owen were their first round in 27 and 29 years), the third is Taobao in the buyout market, and these three roads will be blocked by the second local tyrant line from the 23-24 season.

Conclusion

After the new labor agreement takes effect, the Clippers, warriors and other giants will be very uncomfortable by the second local tyrant line rules. According to relevant estimates, the second local tyrant line in the 23-24 season is 0.1795 billion US dollars, while the salaries of Warriors and Clippers All exceed this number. Heat, Nuggets, Sun, the salaries of teams such as Celtics are also close to this figure. These teams may not be able to use the middle class exception during the off-season this year, and they will not be able to Taobao in the buyout market next season.

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