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We have 10-years of a new CBA to live through before the subject might surface.
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He was named most valuable player at the 2009-10 CBA All-Star game and has more than 150, 000 followers on Sina Weibo, a Chinese Twitter-like microblogging site.
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So why have the owners thus far cancelled 422 regular season games of the 2012-13 season, as well as the All-Star Game, insisting on a new CBA that drastically reduces the amount of money that can be spent on player salaries (currently 57% of hockey-related revenue)?
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Since the opt-out, the pace of negotiations towards a new CBA has been sporadic and inconsistent.
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"The NBA lockout now comes to an end, so does A Lian's performance in the CBA, " said a statement posted on the team's official Twitter-like microblog.
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"With no NBA games on TV, there is a level attention on CBA games and the lives of CBA players that has never been seen before, " said Matt Beyer, a Beijing-based sports management consultant.
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As written here before, revenue sharing was the focus of the 2006 NFL Owners meeting that ratified the now-expired CBA. Former NFLPA chief Gene Upshaw had demanded that the Owners come up with a workable plan, diverting their attention from the Player deal which slid through by a 30-2 ratification vote.
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That's because the CBA offered no opt-out provisions: Players who signed with their teams would be contractually obligated to play for a full season, which extends into March.
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