杰克逊在费城的12个月在周日结束了，76人放弃了他们的替补控球后卫，有效地结束了他的双向合同。杰克逊在NBA的最长45天时间是和76人队在一起，而不是和球队的g联赛附属公司特拉华蓝衣队在一起。在世界顶级篮球联赛的边缘，一切都很好，尤其是三年前签下你的球队本赛季还支付你近9.3万美元。 p>
凯尔特人在2016年以第45顺位选中了杰克逊。一个月后，波士顿与圣母大学签下了一份为期四年、价值550万美元的合同，平均年薪138万美元，基本上相当于当年排名第23位的全明星的薪酬。杰克逊实现了他的梦想。他的童年生活在一个残酷的寄养系统中，在两年的时间里辗转于五个不同的家庭。在那个2016-17赛季，只有波士顿队15次将杰克逊交给了g联赛的附属机构缅因红爪队，最终在7月15日放弃了他，同时为签下全明星自由球员戈登海沃德创造了帽位。 p>
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条款后批准2011年的集体谈判协议,任何球员合同放弃7月1日到8月31日之间可以通过发布条款,支付承受工资超过优秀年加上一个额外数量的两倍。在这些日期以外，任何被免除的、剩下25万美元保证薪金的合同都必须在该季度以同样的增量切实支付。这一条款在每个球员的合同中都有规定，从11月15日开始，每个赛季每半个月支付24英镑。目前有21名球员的工资来自不再使用他们服务的球队。以下是一些nba球队每年支付的薪酬: p>
在2022-23赛季，凯尔特人将继续支付上述提到的杰克逊92,857美元，而布鲁克林将支付德隆威廉姆斯540万美元，直到2019- 2020赛季。底特律在2019- 2020赛季仍然支付给约什·史密斯530万美元，金州勇士在本赛季结束前支付给贾森·汤普森945126美元，火箭在2020-21赛季还欠特洛伊·威廉姆斯122741美元。狡猾的蒙塔·埃利斯在21-22赛季将会以220万美元的价格出现在印第安纳州的账上，而快船将会在2019- 2020赛季分别付给卡洛斯·德尔菲诺65万美元和米罗斯拉夫·拉杜尔基卡252043美元。接下来的21-22赛季，罗尔·邓将从湖人队赚到500万美元，下个赛季，尼克斯队将给乔基姆·诺阿送去640万美元。 p>
除了Tom Thibodeau合同的剩余款项，明尼苏达将在2020-21赛季支付给Cole Aldrich 685340美元。锡伯杜的前替补控球后卫，CJ沃森，在2019- 2020赛季之前，将从魔术队获得333333美元的年薪。孟菲斯的达喀利·约翰逊(Dakari Johnson)将在2020-21年期间吸金459,414美元。热火在2020-21赛季欠大个子AJ Hammons 350,087美元，在2019-20赛季欠Spencer Hawes 200万美元，在2021-22赛季欠Larry Sanders 185万美元，在2022-23赛季欠Kyle Singler 999,200美元。波特兰还有很多合同没有到期，安德鲁·尼科尔森欠他280万到2020- 23年，安德森·瓦莱乔欠他190万到2020-21年，费斯特斯·埃泽利欠他333333到2019-20年。猛龙队将在2019- 2020赛季削减100万美元给贾斯汀·汉密尔顿，而奇才队在赛季结束前欠马特尔·韦伯斯特833333美元。老牌球星也在赚钱，国王必须在2019- 2020赛季支付给巴恩斯210万美元，在本赛季结束前支付给巴特勒517220美元，圣安东尼奥马刺则为邓肯支付180万美元。 p>
巴特勒在2015年与国王队签订了一份为期两年，价值300万美元的合同，然而在萨克拉门托运转不良的德马库斯·卡曾斯时代的一个赛季后，这位13岁的老将选择离开比赛。“我准备退休了，”巴特勒说。“情况显然没有好转。国王队首先放弃了他，这是一种惯例，允许巴特勒得到交易中剩下的150万美元。这就是为什么邓肯仍然是由圣安东尼奥支付。巴特勒以每两周大约2万美元的支票形式收取未付工资。“萨克拉门托国王队每个月还在发工资，这是s---。这是一个很好的情况，知道你有更多的现金流进来，”巴特勒说。“我的孩子们喜欢它。当巴特勒最终离开萨克拉门托的时候，他并不知道需要多长时间来获得他的资金。然而，在他的职业生涯中赚了8000多万美元，这样的安排似乎令人满意。“我就像，你知道吗，这是可行的，”巴特勒说。 p>
其他几乎没有内容。斯宾塞·霍斯更愿意提前得到他四年2300万美元合同中剩下的600万美元。他说:“有收入固然好，但有了钱，在机会来袭时能够投资不同的领域，也同样不错。”“也许会给球队老板一个机会，让他们不要在同一时间把球打到自己的账上，但是球员会受到惩罚，必须等待，这是另一件让人沮丧的事情。”具有讽刺意味的是，快船在2014年放弃了德尔菲诺和拉杜伊卡的合同，只是为了给哈维斯的合同创造空间。然而，雄鹿队在2017年放弃豪斯之后，正在削减这家锐利的射击中心的长期开支。在那之前的一周，雄鹿在2月份的交易截止日期之前收购了哈维斯，他参加了雄鹿在加州的团队休养所，和队友们一起跑步，希望能再聚到一起参加训练营。“至少可以说，这确实让我大吃一惊，”霍斯说。 p>
哈维斯一直保持着良好的竞技状态，在他的家乡西雅图训练。上个赛季，他自2007年以来第一次来到NBA的郊区，他对每一个传闻和每一个可能的花名册开放都感到兴奋。“我不想出去被人砍伤，”霍斯说。“我知道很少有人会按照你的意愿去做。但是油箱里还有很多。我不想回首往事，说我29岁的时候就放弃了。他还希望为那些被放弃的球员争取一个更好的体系。前美国球员协会球队代表霍斯(Hawes)计划在nba全明星周末召开的会员大会上，或在休赛期召开的会员大会上，解决他的担忧。 p>
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球员的合同应该延伸并表示球员继续收集他的钱在退休,像管家一样,或作为一个自由球员,如霍斯和上面列出的其他几个人,玩家不再有资格获得好处NBA和球员协会提供球员活跃的花名册,尽管仍然收到薪水。因此，非现役球员不包括在联盟的401K和401K比赛服务中。NBPA相信他们提供的福利是所有职业体育联盟中最具竞争力的，这是一个非常有效的立场。退役球员有资格加入工会的退役球员医疗体系，服役10年以上的退伍军人可以为自己和家人享受医疗保险。此外，联盟还将继续推出一些项目，帮助其成员在退役后进行职业投资和获得职业机会。 p>
然而像Hawes这样的自由球员，他们已经不堪重负，得不到医疗保障。放弃球员时,他的保险维护这个月余下的,只有玩家会收到一封信解释如何成为被眼镜蛇覆盖,一个联邦项目,允许一个人,他或她的家属继续医疗福利在失去工作或减少工作时间。自由球员的长期支票也没有资格支付他们的养老金。美国劳工部(U.S. Department of Labor)限制NBPA只向现役球员提供优越的福利待遇。 p>
对于联盟的第三方托管也是一样，这个程序也是在1999年CBA之后制定的，并在2017年的谈判之后保持。每个赛季，球员个人工资的10%(包括延长期工资)会从他们的工资支票中扣除，存入一个代管账户。这笔钱实际上一直被冻结到年底，届时NBA将对球员的集体收入、与篮球相关的收入、工资和福利的保障份额进行评估。球员和老板们达成协议，将BRI的49% - 51%分成两部分，如果球员最终的收入超过了他们各自的收入，超额收入将从第三方托管账户中返还给球队和联盟。如果玩家没有得到他们的最大保证，低于他们讨价还价的份额，分配给弥补这一不足的钱除了被退还的托管资金外，还将在玩家中分配。问题是:像Hawes这样手头拮据的自由职业者会看到10%的工资被禁止托管，但同时，如果他们的部分收入没有达到法定标准，他们就无法获得任何潜在的收入缺口。如果没有足够的回扣，Hawes的10%将会返还给他，但是他并不包括在这个额外的资金池中，这笔钱只由那个赛季的活跃球员平分。 p>
逻辑上，这个概念是有意义的。虽然这些紧张的工资是每个赛季球员集体收入的一部分，但这些合同并没有雇佣那些最终为篮球相关收入做出贡献的现役球员。这并没有使托管的情况减少任何第二十二条军规。“你承担了所有的风险，却没有任何好处，”霍斯说。“我们为什么要给你这个工具，来清理(球队的)工资帽状况——这是他们自己造成的混乱——我们为什么要给你这个工具，而不给另一边的球员任何回报?”这就是让我沮丧的地方。有收入固然好，但拥有一个花名册位置，能够充分利用随之而来的一切也很好。 p>
工会已经承认了Hawes的抱怨，但是福利的削减，就像命运多灾多祸的托管规定一样，任何没有在花名册上拿薪水的球员都是劳工部严格限制的结果。nba是否会在下一届CBA中尝试解决这一问题还有待观察，nba和nba都有机会在2023年退出当前的劳资协议。就目前而言，这些支票将继续渗入球员的银行账户，无论他们是同时在中国打球、与另一支NBA球队签约，还是在国内等待世界最大舞台上的另一次机会。
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For NBA Free Agents, the Stretch Provision Comes With Cash and Complication
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Demetrius Jackson’s 12 months in Philadelphia came to a close on Sunday, when the Sixers waived their reserve point guard and effectively ended his two-way contract. The maximum 45 days in which Jackson could spend in the NBA with the 76ers, rather than the team’s G-League affiliate Delaware Blue Coats, was quickly approaching and a lucrative deal in China awaited him. All's well that ends well on the fringes of the world’s premier basketball league, especially when the team that drafted you three years ago also still pays you almost $93,000 this season.
The Celtics selected Jackson with the 45th pick in 2016. One month later, Boston inked the whirling Notre Dame product to a four year, $5.5 million contract, boasting an average annual salary of $1.38 million, essentially equal to the pay of that year’s No. 23 overall pick. Jackson had realized his dream. After a childhood entrapped in a brutal foster system, at one point bouncing between five different homes in two years, he had arrived. Only Boston assigned Jackson to their G-League affiliate Maine Red Claws 15 times that 2016-17 season, ultimately waiving him on July 15 while creating cap space to sign All-Star free agent Gordon Hayward.
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Following a clause ratified by the 2011 Collective Bargaining Agreement, any player contract waived between July 1 and Aug. 31 has the option to be released via the stretch provision, which pays the withstanding salary over twice the number of outstanding years plus one additional year. Outside of those dates, any contract waived with over $250,000 remaining in guaranteed salary must be tangibly paid in those same increments for that season. That clause is scripted in the uniform player contract each individual signs, enacting 24 semi-monthly payments beginning on Nov. 15 each season. There are currently 21 players being paid by teams that no longer employ their services. Here's a glance at some of at what teams across the league are paying out each year:
The Celtics will continue to pay the aforementioned Jackson $92,857 every year through 2022-23, while Brooklyn will pay Deron Williams $5.4 million through 2019-20. Detroit is still paying Josh Smith $5.3 million through 2019-20, Golden State is dropping $945,126 on Jason Thompson through the end of this season and the Rockets owe Troy Williams $122,741 through 2020-21. The mercurial Monta Ellis is on Indiana’s books for $2.2 million through 2021-22 and the Clippers will pay Carlos Delfino $650,000 and Miroslav Raduljica $252,043, respectively, through 2019-20. Down the road Luol Deng will earn $5 million from the Lakers through 2021-22 and next season the Knicks will begin sending Joakim Noah $6.4 million through 2021-22.
In addition to the remaining money on Tom Thibodeau's contract, Minnesota will pay Cole Aldrich $685,340 through 2020-21. Thibodeau's former backup point guard, CJ Watson, will earn $333,333 per year until 2019-20 from the Magic. There's Dakari Johnson in Memphis, who will siphon $459,414 through 2020-21. The Heat owe big man AJ Hammons $350,087 through 2020-21, the Bucks will pay Spencer Hawes $2 million through 2019-20 and Larry Sanders $1.865 million through 2021-22 and Oklahoma City has Kyle Singler on the books for $999,200 through 2022-23. Portland has a number of lingering contracts, owing Andrew Nicholson $2.8 million through 2022-23, Anderson Varejao $1.9 million through 2020-21 and Festus Ezeli $333,333 through 2019-20. The Raptors will cut $1 million checks to Justin Hamilton through 2019-20 and the Wizards owe Martell Webster $833,333 through the conclusion of this campaign. Big veteran names are still earning checks as well, as the Kings must pay Matt Barnes $2.1 million through 2019-20 and Caron Butler $517,220 through the end of this season, with San Antonio is pushing Tim Duncan $1.8 million for this campaign.
Butler signed a two-year, $3 million contract with the Kings in 2015, yet after one season in Sacramento’s dysfunctional DeMarcus Cousins era, the 13-year-veteran opted to walk away from the game. “I was ready to retire,” Butler says. “The situation obviously didn’t work out.” The Kings waived him first, a common practice, allowing Butler to receive the remaining $1.5 million of his deal. That’s why Duncan is still being paid by San Antonio. Butler collects his outstanding salary in bi-weekly checks of roughly $20,000. “Still getting paid every month by the Sacramento Kings, it’s the s---. It’s a good situation to be in, knowing you’ve got some more cash flow coming in,” Butler says. “My kids love it.” When finalizing his departure from Sacramento, Butler was originally unaware of the time period it would take to acquire his funds. Yet having earned over $80 million during his career, the arrangement seemed satisfactory. “I was just like, you know what, this will work,” Butler says.
Other aren’t nearly as content. Spencer Hawes would have preferred to receive the remaining $6 million of his four-year, $23 million contract up front. “It’s nice having an income, but it’s also nice having your money and getting to invest in different areas when opportunities strike,” he says. “Maybe give the owners the opportunity to not have it hit their books all at the same time, but the fact that the players get penalized and have to wait for it, it’s another thing that’s kind of frustrating.” Ironically, the Clippers waived Delfino and Raduljica in 2014 via the stretch provision in order to create the cap space to ink Hawes’s deal. Yet the Bucks are cutting the sharpshooting center’s enduring checks after waiving Hawes in in 2017. The week before, Hawes, whom Milwaukee acquired before that February’s trade deadline, attended the Bucks’ team retreat in California, joining pickup runs with his teammates and expecting to reconvene for training camp. “It definitely caught me by surprise, to say the least,” Hawes says.
Hawes has stayed in game shape, training in his native city of Seattle. Last season, his first on the outskirts of the NBA since 2007, he grew excited with each passing rumor and every potential roster opening. “I don’t want to go out getting cut,” Hawes says. “I know it’s a rare thing to kind of go out on your terms. But I still have a lot in the tank. I don’t want to look back and say I was done at 29 and just kind of gave up on it.” He also wants to argue for a better system for players waived via the stretch position, and Hawes, a former Players Association team representative, plans to address his concerns during the NBPA’s meeting for union members over All-Star Weekend or at their session held during the offseason.
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Should a player’s contract be stretched and said player proceeds to collect his money either in retirement, like Butler, or as a free agent, like Hawes and several others listed above, that player is no longer eligible for the benefits the NBA and Players Association provide to players on active rosters, despite still receiving a paycheck. As such, inactive players are not included in the league’s 401K and 401K match services. The NBPA believes they offer the most competitive benefits package of any professional sports league, and it’s an incredibly valid stance. Retired players are eligible to enroll in the union’s retired players healthcare system, and veterans with 10-plus years of service can receive health insurance for themselves and their entire family. Further, the union continues to introduce programs that assist its members in post-playing career investment and professional opportunities as well.
Yet free agents, like Hawes, who have been stretched are not afforded healthcare. When a player is waived, his insurance upholds for the remainder of that month, only then players will receive a letter explaining how to become covered by COBRA, a federal program that allows a person and his or her dependents continued medical benefits after losing a job or experiencing a reduction of work hours. Free agents’ stretch checks are also ineligible to contribute to their pensions. The U.S. Department of Labor restricts the NBPA to only provide their superior benefits package to players holding active roster spots.
The same goes for the league’s escrow, a program also enacted following the 1999 CBA and maintained following the 2017 negotiations. Each season, 10% of players’ individual salaries, including stretch salaries, are withheld from their paychecks and deposited into an escrow account. That money is effectively frozen until year’s end, when the NBA evaluates the combined income of the players’ collective, guaranteed share of basketball-related income, salaries and benefits. Players and owners bargained to split between 49% and 51% of BRI, and if players ultimately earn more than their respective amount, the overage is returned to teams and the league from that escrow account. If the players’ don’t receive their guaranteed maximum, falling short of their bargained share, the money allotted to make up for that shortfall is divvied amongst the players in addition to the escrow money being returned. The catch: Stretched free agents like Hawes see 10% of their salary barred into escrow, but simultaneously are void from earning any potential shortfall money should their portion of the BRI not meet the mandatory threshold. In the event of a shortfall kickback, Hawes's 10% would go back to him, but he's not included in that extra pool of money split only by the active players from that season.
Logically, the concept makes sense. While those stretched salaries are part of the collective players’ earnings each season, those contracts are not employing active players who ultimately contribute to generating basketball-related income. That doesn’t make the escrow situation any less of a catch-22. “You assume all the risk with no upside,” Hawes says. “Why would we give you this tool, to clean up [teams’] salary-cap situations—which are messes that they get themselves into—why would we give you this tool without getting anything back for the players on the flip side? That’s what frustrates me about it. It’s nice having the income, but it’s also nice having a roster spot and being able to take advantage of everything else that comes along with it.”
The union has acknowledged Hawes’s complaint, yet the benefits eclusion, like the ill-fated escrow stipulation, with any player earning salary who's not on a roster is mandated result of the Department of Labor’s rigid restrictions. It remains to be seen whether the NBPA will attempt to address this corollary in the next CBA, with both the NBPA and the league having a chance to opt out of the current labor deal in 2023. For now, the checks will continue filtering into players’ bank accounts, whether they’re simultaneously playing in China, under contract for another NBA team, or waiting at home for another chance on the world’s biggest stage.
