The most important part of any new CBA - a rookie slotting system

[mooby]

Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon

One consituency that does NOT agree here is the agents. They have been negaitve on this idea everytime it has come up.

Probably because they will lose money from signing the rookie first rounders. But the agents don't have say at the negotiating table, the players union and the owners do. And both the players and owners agree that rookie first round picks get too much money, which is why an agreement on that will eventually get done. I know the players want that extra money to be used on guys in free agency and I don't think the owners have any argument with that, they just want to stop giving huge cap busting contracts to rookies who haven't proven anything.