NBA players would reportedly lose between 21-24 percent of their salary if the 2019-20 season doesn’t resume, per Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.
The NBA was suspended last week after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for the coronavirus. Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell and Detroit Pistons big man Christian Wood are the other two NBA players who have the coronavirus.
The NBA’s collective bargaining agreement allows the league to reduce player salaries by 1/92.6th for each game missed because of, among other things, epidemics.
As transcribed by Real GM:
“I think generally, my sense is this, if there are games canceled but there’s a few regular season games left to play…now remember, most teams have played about 20 percent of their schedule, 20 percent of their money left,” Woj said.
“Obviously some teams have played more games than others, but for the most part, for most players it might be that if they didn’t play another game this year…I think they told the players (between) 21 and 24 percent of their salary based on those factors.”
Shams Charania of The Athletic reported this past Saturday that the NBA has sent a memo to player agents stating that they fully expect that players will continue to receive salary on their designated paydays during the suspended season.
The prevailing thought is NBA owners want to finish the season no matter what month it gets into. The 2020 NBA Finals could take place toward the end of the summer and then the 2020-21 season could start up in December.
For what it’s worth, the 2011-12 lockout season started on Christmas.
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