Will the NBA players' union learn from its 2016 mistake?

The financial ramifications from the pandemic aren't a blip. The union, for the sake of all of its members, needs to find a workable solution for adjusting salaries going forward.

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The Sisters, Berthe Morisot

ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reports that the NBA and players’ union have agreed to extend the deadline by which the league can rip up the collective bargaining agreement that rules how the salary cap is set and, thus, how much players can get paid. The vaunted force majeure clause in the CBA has a …