Billy Hunter, the executive director of the NBA Players Association, believes that the current collective bargaining agreement is working just fine.
"As far as I'm concerned, the system has worked," Hunter said late Wednesday.
Hunter's comments likely mean that commissioner David Stern is going to have to do some serious convincing if he wants to oversee a major overhaul of the agreement when it expires in June of 2011.
"One of the principle issues is that some owners are having a hard time with cash flow," Hunter said. "I don't see why that automatically means more give-backs from the players. It seems to me a new revenue-sharing plan among the owners is one of the things they have to look at. Then you wouldn't be looking to the players every time there's a shortfall."