LeBron James is the face of the NBA, and after the multi-billion TV rights deal the league secured, the superstar says the league can no longer argue that teams are not profitable.
The NBA secured a new multi-billion dollar television deal with ESPN and Turner Sports this week, and already the players in the league are keeping a watchful eye on what it means for future profits. We already know that the salary cap is going to swell in the coming years, but one player is already being cautious about all the financial mumbojumbo being spewed ny the league.
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LeBron James has come out and said that if the NBA tries to argue that teams are losing money when the CBA comes back up for tweaking, it’s not something the players are going to take kindly to.
LeBron adds "no way" NBA owners can tell players they're losing money after new TV deal, as owners said during last CBA. "That won't fly."
— Sam Amico (@AmicoHoops) October 6, 2014
Basically, Adam Silver is a commissioner that the players like and LeBron is simply advising him not to give them a reason to think otherwise. So far, Silver has ruled in favor of the players over the owners with the biggest example of this being Silver taking a team away from an owner over racist views that owner harbored.
The mega-television deal is historic for the NBA but owners have already established themselves as greedy in the past. The players sort of put up with it in the last CBA but this new deal is a clincher that they won’t a second time around.