The NBA is potentially facing an interesting impasse over league’s push to include an “upper spending limit” – to prevent big market teams like the Los Angeles Clippers from bloating their payrolls while being able to live with the subsequent luxury tax penalties, which has been met with hard resistance from the NBPA.
As the both sides approach the December 15 deadline to opt out of the current collective bargaining agreement, longtime NBA insider Marc Stein reported in his Substack on Friday that the NBA is looking to get “closer to a true hard cap” in the next CBA, something that will surely be a no-go for the players’ union:
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