The NBA and the NBA Players Association have the option to opt out of the league's current collective bargaining agreement in the summer of 2017, but Commissioner Adam Silver doesn't think tensions will rise to the point that such action will be necessary.
Speaking with Rachel Nichols on Wednesday's edition of The Jump on ESPN (via ESPN.com), Silver explained the reasoning behind his optimism as the opt-out date moves closer:
The tenor has been very positive. I mean the tenor is -- we have an obligation to the game. I mean even those words have been used in the meetings. And so I think we're starting very early in our discussions. We're approaching it in a very serious way. And so I'm extraordinarily optimistic that we're gonna work through our issues and get something done.
The league's current CBA was struck following the 2011 lockout, but an impending salary-cap spike could complicate matters.
After the league inked a nine-year, $24 billion television rights deal, the NBA and the NBPA had the option to choose a salary-cap-smoothing proposal that would have sprea ...
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