NBA Players Union NBPA announced that CJ McCollum was elected as the new president of the players' union.
Former union president Chris Paul's term of office has ended and he did not run for the race.
The term of office of one union president is 4 years, and Paul is re-elected for 2 consecutive terms.
Don't you think it's a bit incredible to become the president of a union with CJ's popularity and fame?
Since the establishment of the players' union in 1954, most of the presidents are not the superstars in our cognition, nor are they as "highly respected" as we think.
1954-58 Bob Kushi
1958-65 Tom Heinthorn
1965-74 Oscar Robinson
1974-80 Paul Silas
1980-85 Bob Lanier
February 1985-1988 Junio Brickiemann
February 1988 - October 1988 Alex Inglish
1988-94 Isaiah Thomas
1994-97 Buck Williams
1997-01 Patrick Ewing
2001-05 Markle Curry
2005-06 Antonio Davis
2006-13 Derek Fisher
2013-21 Chris Paul
Is there still a lot of unfamiliar, too ancient we will not say, just 2005 Antonio Davis, it is estimated that many people do not know it.
Antonio Davis, a second-round show, averaging 10 points and 7 boards per game in his career, looks even more incredible than CJ McCollum, right?
Because of the main function of the players' union, it is decided that the person who becomes the chairman does not necessarily need to play super strong, but must have excellent talent in management, negotiation, coordination and so on.
The main role of the players' union is to maintain and maximize the interests of players, and when the interests of players are infringed, they stand up and speak out to prevent and defend their rights.
In the past two years, everyone should still have a more intuitive understanding of the players' union, right? Like when the NBA was suspended due to the epidemic before, it was the players' union that stood up and discussed the details of the resumption of the game with the league, and it was the players' union that organized the players' meeting.
The collective agreement that protects the most basic interests of players is also negotiated and formulated by the players' union and the league.
There is also the protection of the life of the players after retirement, etc.
Previously, the players' union also discussed whether to help each player buy medical insurance to ensure that their lives after retirement are guaranteed.
CJ is a senior year before participating in the draft, he is one of the league's first-line players, one of the few players with a bachelor's degree certificate, college is a journalism major, that year also with very good results to get a diploma.
As a union president in a circle that lives in the spotlight every day, it can be said that CJ is still very professional.
CJ's first act on the board was to find a new executive director, and the term of the original executive director, Michel Roberts, ended.
The general executive director is a lawyer who is responsible for negotiations and legally binding agreements.
Since 2018, CJ has been vice president of the players' union and has participated in the last labor negotiations.
The current collective agreement will expire in 2022-23, there will soon be new labor negotiations, CJ will lead this labor negotiation, and we will know in a moment how capable he is.
There should be many Aiqing who are curious about the advantages of being the president of the union, right?
Many people think that Paul can get a big contract of 4 years and 120 million yuan this year, which has a lot to do with his status as the president of the union, because Paul has reached an agreement with the NBA to amend the "38-year-old rule" during his tenure, which allows him to sign a long contract this year. If you follow the original 38-year-old rule, Paul can only sign a 4-year contract for a maximum of 2 years, and then can only sign for 1 year.
And the president of the players' union is paid, I don't know how much, but the former executive director of the union Billy Hunter's annual salary is exposed, 5 million per year (Billy Hunter is a famous prosecutor and negotiator in the United States, and several labor shutdowns he will eventually fight for the greatest interests of the players. ）。
The secretaries can guess how much the union president can probably take!
NBA players who join a union are required to give 1% of their salary to the union as a membership fee each year.
We use the salary cap to calculate, next season's salary cap is 112 million, then the total annual salary of the 30 teams in the league is about 3.3 billion, which means that the annual membership fee to the union must be at least 33 million.
Some of this money becomes the salary of union employees.