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NBA lockout ends before season cancellation begins Fans can expect a season of about 50 games to begin in February By Chris Sheridan The Associated Press NEW YORK—The NBA and the players’ union reached an agree ment today to end the 6-month-old lockout and save what’s left of the season. After a secret all-night bargain ing session between commission er David Stern and union head Bil ly Hunter, the deal was struck sometime around 6 a.m. — just 29 hours before the league’s Board of Governors was set to vote on can celing the remainder of the season. The owners' and players’ nego tiating committees recommended approving the six-year deal, which gives the NBA an option for a sev enth year. The players approved it 179-5 in a ratification vote at the union’s law office this afternoon, a union spokesman said. The league’s Board of Governors will vote Thursday. A season of about 50 games would begin the first week of Feb ruary, with training camps not starting before Jan. 17. “Oh, I’m so relieved it’s unbeliev able,” Milwaukee Bucks coach George Karl said. “It’s like I let a bal loon out of my stomach. The knots are already loosening up in my neck. I get to do what I love to do.” The union agreed to accept 55 percent of revenues in the fourth, fifth and sixth years of the agree ment, sources told the AP. Players would get 57 percent if the league exercises its option for the seventh year. In the first three years, there is no limit on the percentage of rev enues players can receive. The settlement also means Michael Jordan must now decide whether to retire. “Michael is going to analyze the deal, see what Chicago wants to do and then make an informed deci sion,” agent David Falk said. “I'm not certain what his time frame is.” Under terms of the new agree ment, a grandfather clause allows any player to sign for 105 percent of his previous salary. That means Jordan, who made about $33 mil lion last year, could get about $34.7 million from the Bulls. No other team can offer him any thing close to that amount. Among the other compromises: — The union agreed to a $14 million maximum salary for play ers with 10 years’ experience. Play ers with one to five years' experi ence can get a maximum of $9 million, and players with six to nine years’ experience can get $11 million. — The union agreed to a three year rookie scale with teams hold ing an option for the fourth year and the right of first refusal in the fifth year. First-round draft picks will be grouped into three cate gories by where they were selected -1-9,10-19 and 20-29 — with the highest picks eligible for higher percentage increases in their salaries from year to year. — The league accepted the union’s proposal for an “average” salary exception and “median” salary exception, with both being phased in during the next three years. As a result, every team will have the right to sign two addition al players each season, even if they are over the salary cap. — The annual allowable salary increases will be 12 percent for players with so-called Larry Bird rights — those free agents re-signed by a team without regard to the salary cap — and 10 percent for others. —Changes to free agency timing rules will be phased in, with free agents counting 200, 250 or 300 percent against their old team's salary cap until that team re-signs them or renounces their rights. — The league agreed to higher minimum salaries than it had been offering, although the exact amounts weren’t immediately known. No professional sports union had ever agreed to a maximum salary before, but the NBA had been pushing for one throughout the lockout. The union initially re fused, then suggested a luxury tax be charged to any owner who signed a player for more than $15 million. The league kept holding out, and eventually the players re lented. Once the deal is finalized and the lockout is lifted, it will unleash a three- to four-week frenzy of ac tivity with teams scrambling to fill rosters, make trades and sign some of the 200 free agents on the mar ket while also holding abbreviated training camps. “We’ll probably have eight months of NBA basketball squeezed into four months, with trades and signings," Karl said. Among the free agents are Jor dan, Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rod man, Charles Barkley, Antonio McDyess, Rod Strickland and Da mon Stoudamire. "Obviously, it will be very busy,” said agent Mark Bartel stein. "We’ve got a lot of free agents, so we've got to find them homes and teams. Get other guys into camps. Get up and rolling. I’m sure I'll probably talk to a lot of teams today.” The league and the union had been fighting over how to divide an estimated $2 billion in annual revenue. “I don’t think anyone won. 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