Recently, former NBA player and current ESPN analyst Richard Jefferson talked about his views on the new labor-capital agreement.

Around the same time as the new labor agreement was passed in 2023, owners of many top teams in the league began selling their teams. Over the past two years, the Mavericks, Celtics, Suns and Lakers have changed hands one after another, and small-market teams like the Bucks, Hornets and Trail Blazers have followed closely behind.

Jefferson believes that this is because the NBA punishes teams that form luxury rosters, spend money heavily and win, thus weakening the value of excellent bosses: "With this new labor-management agreement, (the team) is considered to be cheated. This is why all bosses want to quit.

" This is part of the reason why the bosses sell the team. All current bosses want to take it off. This is already a topic of discussion in the circle. What I want to do is not just the bosses who want to pile up stars, nor is it just the Lakers and Celtics. The Hornets were sold, and the Trail Blazers were sold.

"Their idea is, 'Even if I do a good job and form a strong team, it will cost me too much money just to maintain this strong team'. This is the model of success. You can say that this is to achieve equal strength, but this so-called balance of power will only benefit those (poor) teams in the end."