Locally the Schools are getting set to start the basketball season when school returns after the Christmas break and ends with the final  Championship held at the Langley Events Centre in mid-March.

If you’ve reached the pro level of the game, it’s fair to say you appreciate what you have, or so you should but life can ge thrown the odd curve-ball at different times and that’s when it’s more than a game.

While many NBA games are still being played on the hardwood, and they continue or is there be a possible work stoppage for the NBA?

Some might ponder this question, but for others the sentiment around the league was that the players want to see the “tentative” collective bargaining agreement between the NBA and its players before jumping the gun.

This past Wednesday the NBA  announced that the sides reached an agreement in principle on a new labour deal.

This must happen before we might see six additional years of secured NBA labour peace, in which all ratification votes by the owners and players are to happen.

As per a normal contract it’s fair to say that the details, which include increases in values of rookie-scale contracts and exceptions, with a 45% increase in minimum salaries across the board in the first year of the new agreement.

The rookie deals will be proportionate to the salary cap, either rising or falling as that does and to the surprise of no one the average salary is expected to hit $8.5 million next season and rise to $10 million by 2020-21.

There’s never been more money in basketball, and neither side wanted that disrupted.

Players, fans and owners are hoping for a resolve prior to Christmas.

Here’s hoping?