LeBron James took a vocal role in Friday's collective bargaining meeting in Los Angeles, according to sources that spoke to Ken Berger.

The main argument from James came against hard-line owners who recently bought NBA teams and are now trying to create a dramatic financial shift to the system.

“This has been a 57 percent system for years,” said a person who was in the meeting, paraphrasing James’ message. “This has been a system with guaranteed contracts forever. What did you guys expect? What did you think you were getting into?”