I think the current proposal is do or die for this NBA season; doesn't look like the players take it. Most of the quotes are very pessimistic.
If they don't, they know the owners are going to come back with a worse offer, so the players can only be planning on going the decertification route, and we can look forward to a long parade of this whole thing into various courtrooms. I'm hoping for a season lock-out and that the hardliners get an NHL-style hard cap when it's all done. As a Raptors fan, a hard cap doesn't particularly benefit them (they're one of the few teams to make a profit under the current system), but it just makes for more parity overall and a more entertaining league.
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