OK, enough is enough, time to solve the CBA and get ready to play ball.
How? By giving the owners what they really, really want, in exchange for the players getting all the peripheral stuff like salary and years until arbitration and free agency that don’t matter nearly as much. With all the added income they’ll get, the owners can afford to be generous, or at least a little less grasping.
And this solution should go a long way toward ending, or at least, reducing, the godawfulness of tanking.
What do the owners really, really want?