The players NBA will be paid their full salary at the next payday of April 15, although they have not played basketball for a month since the season was suspended due to the coronavirus, said Thursday ESPN, citing a memo from the League.
However, the court and the players’s union (NBPA) are still negotiating to withhold a percentage of the players’s earnings in the next installment, said the well-informed journalist Adrian Wojnarowski.
According to him, the amount of these deductions, which could be made from the next wages paid on May 1, will depend on the fate of the matches not played due to the pandemic of Covid-19, which forced the NBA to stop the championship on March 11, when French pivot Rudy Gobert (Utah) became the first player to test positive.
259 matches reported
April 15 should have marked the end of the regular season. Each of the 30 NBA teams has yet to play 15 to 19 games to reach the 82 scheduled.
No less than 259 meetings in total have so far been postponed sine die. However, taking into account the spread of the pandemic in the United States, the League is not yet in a position to determine whether these matches can be played, in a calendar that is getting tighter with each passing day.
This week, the commissioner Adam Silver indicated to the press that he would not make any decision on the fate of the season before May and that he did not rule out any option: recovery as is, recovery from the play-offs, outright cancellation of the championship.
In the event that the NBA is forced to cancel its season, a “force majeure” clause could be applied, according to which players’ wages could be reduced by up to 1% for each game canceled. The forced cessation of activities due to a pandemic is considered a case of “force majeure” as established in the collective agreement with the players.
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