The signing of Luka Doncic by Los Angeles Lakers, who will debut with the Californians on Tuesday against the Indiana Pacers (04.30 hours In Spain), he has unleashed panic throughout the NBA, because he shows that no one can sleep peacefully in terms of … TRANSFER MATTER. As explained by the Slovenian star, when he received the call confirming his march from the Dallas Mavericks, he was sure that it was a joke from a partner. “I had to verify that it was not the day of the innocents,” said Liubliana. A reality in which he deepened shortly after Kevin Durant, one of the best players in the competition. «It’s crazy. I would never have thought that Luka would be transferred to this age (25) and mid -season. The NBA is a crazy place because, if they can transfer it to it, anyone is in danger (…). The players are subject to a different standard of loyalty and commitment to the shield, but organizations do not do the same, ”explained the phoenix Suns.
That the protagonists, the athletes, are treated as objects When the market is open, it is usual in the American leagues, such as NFL (American football), NHL (ice hockey) or MLB (baseball). But in the NBA it clashes more, since players have an unimaginable power and privileges in other disciplines in the rest of the world, such as their salaries are fully guaranteed, while in others, such as European football, it is common to have to fulfill certain objectives to complete the payroll.
The best basketball league in the world can virtually not make any draft decision without the prior approval of the players union, an organism that, for example, thanks to its strikes, has already caused four employer closures of the competition, in 1995, 1996 , 1998 and 2011. The last two lasted 204 days and 161 respectively and, although it seems a dream that neither Marx could have imagined, a powerful trade unionism in the heart of American capitalismthe truth is that there were no NBA parties until both sides reached an agreement.
Everything comes in that, from time to time, employer and union must sign a new collective agreement, an enormous amount of paperwork that marks the bureaucratic and social rules of the league for the most immediate future (the last one became effective in summer of 2023 and will last until 2030). In those agreements, such important issues are solidified as the salary limit or distribution of television rights or other much more mundane, such as Marijuana consumption. Without going any further, since last year, players are allowed to use the substance during the competition. They can even sign sponsorships with companies in a booming industry that is already legal in states such as California or New York.
In addition, since 1965, the NBA guarantees a pension to its members. It is a system that requires minimum requirements of permanence in the League and that gives the beneficiary annual amounts that range between $ 60,000 and the more than 200,000 that someone who has been more than a decade in the competition can perceive.
So why in a league where players enjoy unique privileges are treated as cattle in terms of signings? The answer is very simple, pure business seasoned with a good amount of morbidityindispensable ingredients to keep fans attached to the current of the League.
Four teams in 24 hours
It is true that Doncic’s departure has laid a precedent, because no one had dared to transfer its franchise player at age 25, maximum scorer in the last campaign and after having been very close to conquering the ring (the Mavericks lost in the last finals against the Boston Celtics). Although the Slovenian case is not the most bleeding. Very recent is also that of the German Base Dennis Schroderchampion and best player of the last World Cup.
The season began with the Brooklyn Nets for, on January 15, to be sent to the Golden State Warriors. However, after only 24 games with the Californians, in the early hours Detroit Pistons. «The NBA is a very fucking business, almost ruthless. It is modern slavery», Said the Teuton, which already accumulates eight franchises in the last four courses, four of them in just 24 hours.
An old acquaintance of Spanish basketball, Nikola Miroticformer Madrid and Barcelona, recently explained in a podcast how they spend them on the other side of the Atlantic. The Spanish Montenegrino and International, when he was a member of the Chicago Bulls in 2018, was about to get on the bus with his teammates to go to the airport, hours before a match. It was then when They ordered him to get offthat he collected his things and that he went to Minnesota, not because the Timberwolves were their new club, but because they had been transferred to the New Orleans Pelicans and played there on that day. “There I was, starting to sign papers with the whole team looking from inside the bus while they took out my bags.”
Examples that perfectly stage that the NBA takes care of its players, consent to them so that, in return, nobody manages to sleep peacefully at night when the market is open, since you can go to bed playing at a tip of the country and wake up On the way to the other.
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