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NBPA Now Funding Health Insurance For Retired Players With 3+ Years Of Service

The National Basketball Players Association announced today it will now fund health insurance for retired NBA players with three or more years of service. Player representatives all voted during the NBPA…

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NBPA’s Heart Screening Initiative Reaches Five Cities, 100 Players

Among the many innovations by the National Basketball Players’ Association has been an initiative for heart screening. Backed by Michele Roberts and Chris Paul, the program provides medical attention to…

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Projected NBA Salary Cap For 2016-17 Season Above Expectations

As the NBA community prepares for quite possibly the wildest summer in recent memory with the incoming increase in the NBA salary cap for the 2016-17 season, there’s been news…

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NBPA Executive Director Michele Roberts Thinks NBA Players are Underpaid

The NBA and the National Basketball Players’ Association could be headed for another lengthy battle in renewing the collective bargaining agreement in 2017. Both parties have an opt-out clause under…

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Michele Roberts Disagrees With Adam Silver Says “NBA Is In A Healthy Financial State”

On Tuesday evening, NBA commissioner Adam Silver, who is widely considered to be a smarter man that what he said, did well by his constituency (30 NBA owners) to say…

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NBPA Wants To Use TV Revenue To Help Fund Former Players Medical Expenses

In the current generation of the NBA, most of what you see during the offseason –besides the occasional hostage situation– are players enjoying the lavish life. The millions upon millions…

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Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James (23) falls

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LeBron James Wants Courtside Photographers To Be Relocated

Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James seriously wants to remove unnecessary encounters during a game, and will propose changing where cameramen sit later this summer during the Players Association meetings. This isn’t…

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