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Hunter was removed by the NBPA for a variety of reasons, which included nepotism. And he claims that Fisher and Kobe Bryant were negotiating CBA deals with Stern personally, a claim Fisher denies. But 15 years later, the league having grown exponentially financially with many earning generational wealth, the legacy of Hunter could be viewed differently. He said he doesn’t care about legacies, but he told the Globe he negotiated arduously for his players and foresaw the league’s growth. “I hear from players from time to time,” Hunter told the Globe. “They call me. I was up at Harvard [for a basketball event] and a guy came over with me and said, ‘You’re the Black man that created more Black millionaires than anybody else in the history of the country.’ And I just kind of chuckled. I said, ‘Yeah, I guess,’ you know. “And so I’ve gotten that from time to time from people — people who kind of understand the game, understand the economics of the game, and said that, you know, I should be credited for all the millionaires, black millionaires, I created.”

Boston Globe

Hunter believes many of the league’s owners wanted him out because he was a troublemaker and hard negotiator, and perhaps they did not want Hunter sparring with the more amicable Silver, who took over for the retired Stern. “My understanding at the time was that the reason why they were moving on from me was because of the fact that it was not a good deal,” he said. “That was what was represented. But I think it was more that, behind the scenes, the owners were moving to get me out of that position, that I had been too much of a problem, you know, and that’s why.”

Boston Globe

NBPA: Statement from the NBPA and its Executive Committee on the Fatal Shooting in Minneapolis by ICE. “There comes a time when silence is betrayal” -MLK

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Did I read correctly that you’re on the NBPA’s board and you’re trying to do some foundation stuff for Spain? Aldama: “Yeah, I’m on the foundation board, but it’s not necessarily for Spain. We helped because there was a natural disaster last year. I was with the board at that time. But they helped a lot with [Jose] Calderon. He was a huge driver of that. We were able to contribute a bunch of resources to the people that suffered. The NBPA helped big time. That was one of the things that motivated me to be on the board with the foundation. We can help when the fires occurred and Jamaica now [with Hurricane Melissa]. We’re trying to help anybody and everybody. Then whatever ventures the players have or anything that’s passionate to them, we can match and help. I think that’s important because we’re more than basketball players. We’re lucky enough to be in a privileged financial situation and social situation. We can donate a lot and also make people aware of things that drive us.”

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Bobby Marks: Statement from the @TheNBPA re: Terry Rozier "While we are in agreement with the league that upholding the integrity of the game is of the utmost importance, their decision to place Terry on leave without pay is counter to the presumption of innocence and inconsistent with the terms of our Collective Bargaining Agreement,” said an NBPA spokesperson. "We plan to challenge their decision via the proper channels.”

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Jaylen Brown said that insufficient measures were taken by the NBA to prep players to deal with the growing sports betting landscape. “How can we protect players more with this environment?” Brown said. “There’s been little to no conversation around that. It’s all about — a lot of times — how can we increase business, and increase revenue? And I’m not sure if we’re having enough conversations about: what is the aftermath or the consequences?”

Celtics Blog

Brown, who was teammates with Terry Rozier for four seasons, said he wasn’t completely sure of what was going on with the betting cases, but noted that the accusations were not “conducive” to Rozier’s character. As Vice President of the NBA players’ union, he also made clear that it’s part of his job to get to the bottom of what’s going on. “If those guys are innocent, it’s not a great look for them publicly, and media-wise,“ Brown said. “So we got to make sure if they are, they’re exonerated and their images are cleaned up. But I think right now, just kind of getting all the information, getting to the bottom of it, is the most important thing.”

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Chris Mannix: NBPA spokesperson to @SInow: “The integrity of the game is paramount to NBA players, but so is the presumption of innocence, and both are hindered when player popularity is misused to gain attention. We will ensure our members are protected and afforded their due process rights through this process.“

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Shams Charania: The 2026 NBA All-Star Game format is likely to feature a round-robin tournament consisting three eight-player squads of two USA teams and one World team, sources tell ESPN. NBA and players union presented format to the Competition Committee on Wednesday and response was positive.

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A spokesperson for the NBPA said the union would be open to creating more limitations around prop betting if it helped diminish the amount of abuse that NBA players receive related to betting. “NBA players compete at the highest level with the utmost integrity and are concerned that prop bets have become an increasingly alarming source of player harassment, both online and in person,” an NBPA spokesperson said. “If tighter regulations can help minimize that abuse, then we support taking a closer look at them.”

New York Times

The National Basketball Players Association views the Porter case as an outlier and has seen no evidence other performance manipulation in the league, according to a spokesperson. The NBPA is, however, concerned about the abuse athletes face from disgruntled bettors.

ESPN

With three players involved in a federal gambling investigation, the NBA and its players' association said this week that they support further limitations on certain types of bets to reduce the risk of manipulation and combat athlete abuse by gamblers. "Protecting the integrity of our game is paramount, and we believe reasonable limitations on certain prop bets should be given due consideration," an NBA spokesperson said in a statement to ESPN. "Any approach should aim to reduce the risk of performance manipulation while ensuring that fans who wish to place prop bets can continue to do so via legal, regulated markets."

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Former National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) executive director Tamika Tremaglio defended the two-apron structure in an interview with Front Office Sports. “What I’ve been hearing is [there’s] a hard cap. There is no hard cap,” said Tremaglio, who was the union’s executive director when the latest CBA was ratified in April 2023. “The reality is that any team can go into the apron. Any team could go into where they’re now paying taxes. It just becomes a more intentional choice on that team as to whether or not they will pay the taxes.”

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Tremaglio, who left the NBPA in late 2023 and works at consulting firm Secretariat as the managing director leading its global sports consulting practice, acknowledged the system could cause “challenges” for teams in their roster-management process. However, she added that the tax and apron system was put into place to limit the stark spending gaps among the 30 NBA teams.

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