Just 48 hours before the start of 2023 free agency, the NBA and National Basketball Players Assocation announced today that they’ve signed and published the league’s new Collective Bargaining Agreement, which will go into effect starting this weekend for the 2023/24 league year (Twitter link).
The new CBA will run through the 2029/30 season, though both sides will have an opt-out deadline of October 15, 2028. If either side opts out, the agreement will terminate on June 30, 2029.
The full CBA can be found right here. It’s a 676-page document, representing a major expansion on the 2017 Collective Bargaining Agreement, which covered 598 pages.
For those who are interested in the league’s CBA changes but not eager to wade through 676 pages of legalese, the NBA and NBPA have also published a nine-page summary of the highlights.
We’d been keeping tabs on several of the most notable CBA changes in our own tracker in recent months as they were reported, but will defer to the official documents from here on out.
Id bet good coin that opt out is going to be exercised in 28 as the middle class is going to see a crunch from the players side and Silver can make some (necessary imo) tweaks at that point as well
Glad too see that’s in there as an option
Happy to not see another holdout so soon