The NBA Board of Governors may be targeting a December 22nd start to the 2020-21 regular season, but the NBPA and its members are not so sure. Shams Charania of The Athletic tweeted tonight that Michele Roberts, Executive Director of the National Basketball Players Association, has indicated that the season start date and negotiations over the Collective Bargaining Agreement cannot be rushed. Specifically, she says shoehorning all the necessary negotiations and agreements into such a short time span “defies common sense”.
Ahead of next deadline on NBA CBA, NBPA’s Michele Roberts tells @TheAthleticNBA: “The union and the players.