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原文及簡易翻譯內容：
The NBA and National Basketball Players Association are struggling to reach
an agreement on lowering the age limit to 18, differing on the league's
desire to attach two conditions to ending the one-and-done NBA draft era,
league sources told ESPN.
聯盟正與球員工會商討是否將選秀年齡降低至18歲，不過仍未達成共識。
且聯盟希望一舉透過修改兩個規則來終結大學過水一年(O&D)的選秀世代。
Commissioner Adam Silver is pressing NBPA executive director Michele Roberts
to require that player agents furnish all teams with medical information on
prospective draft prospects, league sources said. The league also wants to
mandate players attendance and some level of participation in the pre-draft
combine, sources said.
Silver對球員工會執行董事Michael Roberts施壓，
要求待選新秀的經紀人能提供「全部球隊」該新秀的醫療資訊。
聯盟也想要求待選新秀能出席，並參與一定程度的選前試訓。
The NBA still hopes to reach an agreement with the NBPA and allow graduating
high school seniors to enter the league starting with the 2022 draft.
聯盟依然希望與工會達成協議，允許高中畢業生能參加2022年選秀會
The league and union must collectively bargain any changes to a CBA that was
ratified in 2016.
"We're investing millions of dollars into players who we'll now have even
less information about coming out of high school, and we should have the
right to have all the information available on who we are selecting," one
general manager told ESPN.
一個GM告訴ESPN，他們正投資了幾百萬，在這些資訊很少，但即將從高中畢業的新秀
所以我們必須擁有獲取這些所選擇的新秀資訊的權利。
The union has felt significant pressure from the agent community to resist
the NBA's push on ceding control of medical information, sources said. While
the NBPA has long advocated the lowering of the age limit to 18, so far the
union has shown no inclination to surrender on these issues without minimally
a give-back elsewhere from the NBA.
球員工會拒絕NBA提出的健檢報告要求。
但工會長久以來都有在提倡，將選秀年齡限制降低至18歲，
不過目前工會沒有妥協的跡象，除非聯盟給予一定程度的退讓。
Agents have long used the leverage of withholding medical information from
teams to try and steer players to preferred draft destinations. While it's a
strategy that doesn't always render the desired results on draft night, the
absence of that medical data creates greater uncertainty and risk for front
offices tasked with making personnel decisions on young players. NBA general
managers have pushed the league office to legislate the sharing of medical
information with all teams, especially with the anticipation of younger
players forcing organizations to make draft evaluations on teenagers.
Because ultimately teams can draft whomever they want, and first-round picks
can be under contractual control for six seasons prior to free agency,
medical information is a freedom that agents consider necessary to keeping
some influence on their client's early career.
這段懶得翻，大意是經紀人長期以來一直透過醫療資訊做操作
所以GM希望經紀人能提供所有球隊透明的體檢報告。
"Some organizations are run better than others," one prominent agent told
ESPN. "A lot of success comes from a player getting into the right situation
at the right time. If I can do something that influences that, why would I
give that up?"
「有些球隊確實經營得比其他球隊好。」一位知名經紀人說：
「很多球員的成功其實是因為在對的時間，處在對的環境。
如果我能有東西(體檢報告)影響這件事(球隊環境)，那我為何要放棄？」
"I understand why the league wants this. I get that it's not fair across the
board to teams, but I don't work for the teams. I work for the players. When
it's all said and done, and my player doesn't have as good of a career as he
could've had, because, in part, of the coaching, the environment, the kinds
of teammates that surrounded him, will the NBA put a contribution together to
help him? No, they're moving on. I'm not trying to embarrass any teams, but
I'm going to do everything I can to give my players every chance for success."
While there are still instances of agents pushing for players to land in
major markets on draft night, the ability for top talent to land significant
exposure and endorsements in smaller markets has made many representatives
prioritize their players landing in stable, well-run franchises over
geographic destinations.
Out of the 65 players invited to the draft combine in 2018, 11 declined to
submit to the league-wide physical that's ultimately distributed to
interested teams. Agents are allowed to select particular organizations to
examine their players, or they can provide those teams whatever medical
information that they chose to share.
2018選秀試訓被邀請的65個球員中，有11位拒絕提供給聯盟健檢報告，
最終影響了球隊的興趣。 (最明顯的就MPJ了，拖到最後一刻才肯給報告)。
The NBA isn't necessarily pushing for every team to have direct access to
independently examine a player, they do want a mechanism where teams can
minimally get pool doctor reports shared among several organizations, league
sources said.
聯盟不一定會要求每支球隊都有直接獲取球員體檢報告的機會(獨立健檢)
而是希望能有個機制，讓所有球隊能最小化接受到爛醫生體健報告的風險。
"We aren't looking for a team at the end of the first round to have direct
access to a lottery pick," one league official said.
The NBA negotiated the high school players out of the draft in the 2005
collective bargaining agreement. Under Silver, the NBA has changed course on
its thinking considering early entry. The NBA prefers to wait until 2022 to
make sure that teams have time to properly plan on several levels, including
the trading and acquisition of future picks.
前半段講古，懶得翻。
NBA傾向等到2022年才改制，來確保球隊有足夠的時間來準備各種等級球員的計畫。
包含交易和選秀權的獲得。
Phoenix traded the rights to Miami's unprotected 2021 first-round pick to
Philadelphia in June, and the moving of that valued pick played some part in
pushing back the proposed rule change to 2022, league sources said.
Those teams made decisions without the benefit of knowing the timetable on a c
hange
in the age limit. The first crop of high school seniors will be deeper in
talent than those that come immediately before and after it.
太陽今年於選秀會上交易2021年熱火首輪給七六人，
這件事情某種程度延後了規則的制定(補充：原先聯盟是計畫21年修改，後來改成22年)
The NBA is also tying 2022 to a class of current American high school
freshmen who'll have access to USA Basketball's Junior National program as a
part of a broader initiative to develop and educate top prospects on their
pathway to the pros.
The NBA tried to negotiate the medical information mandates and combine
participation into past CBAs, but were unsuccessful. The union is rejecting
the NBA's premise that an agreement on lowering the age limit should be
attached to these mandates, and it found the NBA showed no interest in
bargaining those issues against the elimination of team-friendly rules like
restricted free agency or the moratorium signing period in July, sources said.
聯盟在過去的勞資協議中，試圖與工會協商醫療資訊+要求參加試訓，但沒成功
工會希望把降低年齡規則也加進去，但聯盟比較在意RFA、凍結期等規則的修改。
Privately, the NBA and NBPA say there's far more room to negotiate on
attendance and participation at the draft combine. For example, the league
isn't seeking a hardline where potential lottery picks must participate in
5-on-5 games, but it would like to find ways for everyone to take part in
interview sessions with front offices, measurements, athletic testing and
media availabilities, sources said.
Talks have been ongoing and are expected to continue soon, league sources
said. For now, there remains a final hurdle to the formal ending of the
one-and-done era.
NBA與工會的協商已經展開，而且預期很快就會繼續開始會談