The most ominous stumbling blocks to a deal remain how large a percentage of revenues will be devoted to salaries, and whether there will be an absolute maximum salary for players with more than seven years' experience. We're not going to sit around and concede. The problem is, you've got a group of extremely successful businessmen who own teams. Most of them are billionaires. You've got men accustomed to seeing their dictates honored.
People can read into it anything they want.
But I think it's all about dollars. It's about hard economics. People tend to read different things. If things don't go right or tempers flare, the first reaction is, it's got to be racial. Finally, Hunter also warned of the grave consequences of a lost season, including the formation of a rival league.