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How the new CBA played a big role in the Knicks' decision to part with Jeremy Lin.

Darnell Mayberry of The Oklahoman: Scott Brooks was rewarded with a four-year contract that is believed to be worth more than $16 million. The deal puts Brooks in the top third of NBA coaching salaries and ends weeks of speculation that both Brooks a...

Why did the owners cancel all those games in a fight to aggressively reduce player salaries? By and large, so that small market owners wouldn't feel so much financial pain. Meanwhile, here's a nice little video peek at Jazz owner Greg Miller's massiv...

Whoa, that Derrick Rose rule could mean Russell Westbrook will have a bigger salary than Kevin Durant. Two nice young men in a system that is just dying for them to be rivals. An argument the Spurs ought to use the amnesty clause on Richard Jeffers...

Patrick McDermott/Getty Images Sport The legendary on-court earner now, amazingly, opposes high NBA player salaries. Perhaps it should come as no surprise that Michael Jordan -- famous for his ability to fly -- is a hawk. There are owners who ar...

Cathal Kelly of the Toronto Star: "The players got what they wanted a long time ago - the shelving of the proposal for a hard salary cap. The owners continue to get what they want with each passing day. It made sense for the players to press their ca...

Give them credit, they have been consistent. The NBA owners have always said that they want two things from a new CBA: To adjust player salaries so that owners stop losing money, and to change some other aspects of the league's financial underpinn...

Five thoughts about the lockout: The mid-level is the bedrock of free agency The knee-jerk analysis of the mid-level salary cap exception, among fans, has been that teams have used it poorly, so who cares if it goes away or gets severely cut? M...

TrueHoop reader David created a chart of the two sides' collective bargaining offers to date. The other day, on Bill Simmons' podcast, NBA Commissioner David Stern wondered why the players had scoffed at the owners' offer to cut player salaries just...

A sophisticated examination of the data suggests that when leagues make changes to increase competitive balance, they do not, in fact, create competitive balance. They do, however, tend to bring down salaries. Some in the know suggest talk about comp...

The National Basketball Players Association feels that only a "small number" of NBA teams are losing money and continues to say that it has not willing to put a hard salary cap into play when it negotiates a new collective bargaining agreement.

You don't have to be able to throw a rock very far to hit somebody worried about the power now in the hands of NBA superstars. Top players gathering in places like Miami and New York! Billionaire owners grovelling for the services of players like ...

A peek at the Nuggets' cap savings from the Carmelo Anthony trade. This version of events is different than many out there, because it accounts for the salary the various players have already been paid this season. A ranking of the best players eve...

Mike Bresnahan and Broderick Turner of the Los Angeles Times: "The Lakers want to make trades but are a little short on available, desirable players. They have an aging roster tied down by cumbersome salaries and have already traded their only expiri...

Steve Kerr says the primary reason the NBA is in financial trouble is because salaries "really exploded." The Players' Association, for the record, says negotiated salaries have declined three straight years, despite the greatest free agent class ev...

By Chris Sheridan I just published a lengthy blog post on the ESPNNewYork site taking a detailed look at the salary cap specifics relating to the New York Knicks' free agency plans for this summer, and colleague Andrew Marchand has a story up in w...