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Player-Owner War Isn't NBA's Real Problem
Michele Roberts’ provocative statements about the NBA’s salary-cap system could serve as a starting point to discuss how the league might operate under a new collective bargaining agreement -- and, more important, its new national television contract.
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Michele Roberts’s provocative statements about the National Basketball Association’s salary-cap system, among other things, could serve as a starting point to discuss how the league might operate under a new collective bargaining agreement -- and, more important, its new national television contract.
“I don't know of any space other than the world of sports where there's this notion that we will artificially deflate what someone's able to make, just because," Roberts, the players’ union's new executive director, told ESPN the Magazine. "It's incredibly un-American."