ARTICLE XXX:
NO-STRIKE AND NO-LOCKOUT PROVISIONS AND OTHER UNDERTAKINGS
INDEX
Section 1. No Strike
Section 2. No Lockout
Section 3. No Breach of Player Contracts
Section 4. Best Efforts of Players
Association
Section
1. No Strike.
During the term of this Agreement, neither the Players
Association nor its members shall engage in any strikes,
cessations or stoppages of work, or any other similar
interference with the operations of the NBA or any of
its Teams. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in
this Section 1 shall impair the rights accorded the
Players Association by Article XXXIX, Section 3 (Termination
by Players Association/Anti-Collusion) or Section 6
(Mutual Right of Termination).
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Section 2. No Lockout.
During the term of this Agreement, neither the NBA nor
its Teams shall engage in any lockouts, cessations or
stoppages of work or any other similar interference
with the employment of NBA players by NBA Teams. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, nothing in this Section 2 shall impair
the rights accorded the NBA by Article XXXIX, Section
14 (NBA Option to Reopen/TV Revenues), Section 5 (Termination
by NBA/Force Majeure), or Section 6 (Mutual Right of
Termination).
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Section 3. No Breach
of Player Contracts.
The Players Association agrees that it will not engage
in any concerted activities to breach, induce the breach
of, or threaten to breach or induce the breach of, any
Player Contract.
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Section 4. Best
Efforts of Players Association.
The Players Association will use its best efforts: (a)
to prevent each player from rendering, or threatening
to render, services as a professional basketball player
for another professional basketball team during the
term of a Player Contract between such player and the
Team for which he plays (except as said Player Contract
may be assigned, sold, or transferred in accordance
with the provisions of such Player Contract or this
Agreement); (b) to prevent each player from refusing,
or threatening to refuse, to participate in any scheduled
Exhibition game, Regular Season game, All-Star Game,
Rookie-Sophomore Game, All-Star Skills Competition,
or Playoff game; (c) to prevent each player from refusing,
or threatening to refuse, to report, within the time
required, to a team in the NBA Development League (“NBADL”)
when the player has been assigned to an NBADL Team in
accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, and
to prevent each such player from refusing, or threatening
to refuse, to participate in any scheduled NBADL game;
(d) to prevent each player from otherwise breaching,
or threatening to breach, his Player Contract; and (e)
to prevent each player from making any demand upon the
NBA or any of its Teams, including, but not limited
to, a demand (accompanied by threats that the player
will render services as a professional basketball player
for another professional basketball team during the
term of his Player Contract) that such Player Contract
be renegotiated during the term thereof; provided, however,
that this provision is not intended to prevent any player
from entering into negotiations with a Team, in accordance
with Article VII, with respect to the compensation to
be paid to said player for the Season(s) following the
last playing Season covered by any Player Contract,
or renewal or extension thereof.
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