The NBA and its players are heading down the road of a legal battle that could take months to resolve.

The players rejected the owners' latest offer of a 50-50 split of BRI due to concerns about several system issues.

The players have been “hoodwinked by the combination of a huge void of any leadership and the chasm being filled by a self-serving (Jeffrey) Kessler,” one ownership source told Yahoo! Sports. “It is inconceivable the path they’ve been manipulated to go down.”