who have the lakers signed?
Dwight Howard
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 The season 's cancellation led union president Trevor Linden and senior director Ted Saskin to take charge of negotiations from executive director Bob Goodenow . By early July , the two sides had agreed to a new CBA . The deal featured a hard salary cap , linked to a fixed percentage of league revenues , a 24 % rollback on salaries , and unrestricted free agency beginning after seven years of service . 

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 On November 23 , the league and the players agreed to resume negotiating on November 25 . On November 26 , after 15 hours of talks , a tentative deal was reached . The NBPA re @-@ formed as a union on December 1 , receiving support from over 300 players , exceeding the requirement for at least 260 signatures . Signature cards were sent to the roughly 440 players on rosters at the end of the previous season , as well as to the 60 rookies drafted in 2011 and to players who signed at least two 10 @-@ day contracts . The re @-@ formation enabled further negotiations with the league on secondary issues such as the age limit for the NBA draft and rules on players being sent to and recalled from the NBA D @-@ League . The players and owners concluded their voting on the deal on December 8 , when the deal was ratified , and the lockout ended after 161 days . The owners approved the deal by a 25 – 5 vote , while 86 % of the more than 200 players who voted approved the deal . Miami Heat 's Micky Arison and Dallas Mavericks ' Mark Cuban are the two owners who have publicly disclosed that they voted against the new CBA . 

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 After negotiations between the sides broke off on June 22 , the lockout started nine days later . Teams were barred from making player transactions and holding workouts and meetings for the duration of the work stoppage . The Hofstra Labor and Employment Law Journal 's Grant M. Hayden described the NBA 's action as an " offensive lockout " , in which an employer attempts to force its workers into a settlement that does not favor them . An early byproduct of the lockout was the exclusion of NBA players from the U.S. national team that played at the 1998 FIBA World Championship . USA Basketball , the governing body for the sport in the U.S. , elected to send a team consisting of lower @-@ level professional players and amateurs . Negotiations resumed at an August 6 bargaining session , the first since the start of the lockout . NBA commissioner David Stern and several owners left the talks after the NBPA presented an offer that included increased revenue sharing between teams . 

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 The Lakers hold the draft rights to the following unsigned draft picks who have been playing outside the NBA . A drafted player , either an international draftee or a college draftee who isn 't signed by the team that drafted him , is allowed to sign with any non @-@ NBA teams . In this case , the team retains the player 's draft rights in the NBA until one year after the player 's contract with the non @-@ NBA team ends . This list includes draft rights that were acquired from trades with other teams . 

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 The NBPA scheduled a meeting in New York City on January 6 , where players would vote on the proposal by the owners , which the committee had recommended opposing . Several players , including Shaquille O 'Neal and Hakeem Olajuwon , wanted the vote to be conducted by secret ballot , while others indicated a desire to return to competition regardless of how the vote went . Kevin Johnson stated that most players " were just ready to throw down [ fight ] Wednesday at our meeting if an agreement hadn 't been reached . " Faced with a splintering union , Hunter moved to resume talks with Stern . On January 6 , the day before Stern 's deadline , he and Hunter reached an agreement , which was ratified by the NBPA later that day and by the NBA Board of Governors on January 7 . 
