The new proposal from the owners includes a provision where teams would be allowed to send their players to the D-League for the first five years of their career. They can also reduce the pay to a pro-rated amount of $75,000.

A league official tells Bucher, however, that the D-League rule is not a take it or leave it aspect of negotiations.

For the union, this would be a non-starter, according to Ric Bucher.