Given the pandemic and economic issues hounding the US and the world right now, NBA champion coach Steve Kerr is not surprised that the MLB and the MLB Players Association remain at a standstill in their negotiations.
On 95.7 The Game, Kerr shared his thoughts on the on-going salary talks between the baseball league and the Players Association. In their most recent round of talks, the MLBPA rejected the MLB's proposal involving a 72-game regular season and a guaranteed 70 percent of players' prorated salaries.
For the veteran NBA tactician, the labor crisis and the concurrent pandemic has deeply influenced talks between two parties.
“It wouldn't shock me to see just a sprint to the finish 50-game season or something,” Steve Kerr said, as transcribed by Alex Didion of NBC Sports. “I don't really know anything that you guys don't, but I think there's reason for both sides to want to get together and play, but I think for baseball there's been sort of a looming labor crisis, you guys know that very well.
“Over the last couple years, you could sense that coming, so between the pandemic and some economic issues, I don't think this is that surprising that baseball is where they are right now.”
“I don’t think this is that surprising that baseball is where they are right now.”
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While things are not going too well for baseball, the NBA has been preparing for the resumption of the 2019-20 season. Unfortunately, Kerr and the Golden State Warriors are not one of the 22 teams set to return to action at the Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida this July.
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