NBA Players' Union: Adam Silver Is Full Of Crap

[doniceage]

On Tuesday, in response to a question at a press conference after a Board of Governors meeting, NBA commissioner Adam Silver asserted that a “significant” number of NBA teams were losing money. This mirrored what Silver said at the beginning of the season, which the league repeated two months ago.

Today the National Basketball Players Association has issued a response to Silver’s claim. While prefacing her statement by saying “we agreed not to debate the finer points of negotiation in public”—Silver said something very similar after his comments—NBPA president Michele Roberts said “business is thriving,” and added these “facts of this business”:

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all these statements could be true, business can be thriving and making a loss.
These owners are billionaires for a reason.

[pwaldo]

I just saw a bunch of NBA scrubs get huge contracts this off season. Doesn't seem like they are hurting for cash. Though you have to remember that the NBA subsides the WNBA which loses money. That probably doesn't make all the owners happy.