SALT LAKE CITY — Everybody’s motivated to prevent an NBA work stoppage, with multiple extensions of the opt-out date being granted so the players’ union and team owners can work to extend the collective bargaining agreement.
NBPA executive director Tamika Tremaglio spoke to an assembled group of reporters Saturday afternoon before the All-Star festivities, her first news conference since taking over for Michele Roberts a year ago.
It’s not as critical of a time as it was in 2011, when the players were locked out by the owners under then-commissioner David Stern. There were public and private issues surrounding max contracts and free agency then, and it was heated and ugly.