NBA勞工糾紛後新賽季終於打響

Basketball fans got their Christmas wish Sunday when the long-postponed National Basketball Association season finally opened after a lengthy labor dispute. A dispute between team owners and players over such issues as salary caps and revenue sharing put the entire NBA season in peril. Training camps, pre-season practice games and the first 16 regular season games were canceled before a deal was reached last month.

The NBA will play a shortened 66-game season this year, and teams will cut down on the number of scheduled days off. Winners on the first day of the abbreviated season included the Miami Heat, who beat the defending champion Dallas Mavericks; the New York Knicks, who edged the Boston Celtics; and the Chicago Bulls, who rallied past the Los Angeles Lakers. The other winners were the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Los Angeles Clippers.籃球迷的聖誕節願望在星期天實現了。推遲已久的美國NBA職業籃球聯賽在長期的勞資糾紛後終於開始了新賽季。球隊老闆和球員之間在工資上限和收益分配等問題上的糾紛讓整個NBA賽季陷入危機。訓練營、季前訓練和前16場常規賽在上個月協議達成之前都被取消。

NBA今年的賽季將減少到66場比賽，各球隊也將壓縮休息日的計劃天數。NBA縮水賽季第一天的勝者包括打敗衛冕冠軍達拉斯小牛隊的邁阿密熱火隊、力克波士頓凱爾特人隊的紐約尼克斯隊和戰勝洛杉磯湖人隊的芝加哥公牛隊。其它贏家還有俄克拉荷馬城雷霆隊和洛杉磯快船隊。