The NBA and NBPA have made ‘significant progress’ toward a new collective bargaining agreement, The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski reports.
The two sides are optimistic that a new deal could happen in the next several weeks, according to the report, and eliminate the possibility of a lockout in the summer of 2017.
Both sides have until Dec. 15 to opt out of the current CBA, a 10-year deal that was struck in 2011 following a lockout that lasted 16 games into the seasonm ending in mid-December. The Vertical reports that “many” of the major points of contention have already been agreed upon, and that much of the remaining work deals with minutiae.