The NBA and NBAPA came to a tentative agreement last night on a new CBA, practically ensuring labor peace for the next six years. In it, small market teams were given a new tool to keep their most valuable superstars. As Zach Lowe reported NBA teams can select a designated veteran for a new kind of exception.
This is potentially huge for the New Orleans Pelicans to keep Anthony Davis around beyond this contract. First, a little back story. Davis will have eight years of NBA service when he can opt out of his current contract in the summer of 2020.