That’s a bit different from a player saying it. A league official saying it is like “and we would’ve gotten away with it if it wasn’t for you meddling kids!”

The owners are some of the most educated, snakiest people around. You don’t have a billion $’s in your bank account without being schooled to some pretty shady stuff. To say one person would affect them to that point is rediculous. No, you know how to use someone actions against them, paint a picture to serve your agenda and that is what you are doing.

No education or perspective on understanding each person is an individual? Please.

I liked Simmons’ joke about KG, Kobe and Pierce sharing 3 years of college between them as the “lead negotiators” during that side conversation. All of those belong to Pierce, in case anyone forgot. And of course he omitted Fisher (4 years at Arkansas) and NBPA counsel Kessler from that calculation. Still interesting that instead of sending Fisher + Billy Hunter or the other players in the executive committee (Paul, Mason, Dooling, J. Jones, Bonner, Evans, Ratliff, E. Thomas) suddenly two or three guys who were not involved in previous meetings at all called the shots.

get paid like NBA players. I see it all the time, every moron on the planet thinks they can negotiate.

The players association is looking like jackasses.

So everything that gets said has to be taken with a grain of salt.