During an ESPN podcast recorded on Monday, Billy Hunter said Mark Cuban made a proposal called a "game changer", which would replace the current salary cap with a heavy tax.

The NBA, however, says Cuban proposed a new salary cap exception and not the elimination of the entire cap.

NBA spokesman Mike Bass says Tuesday that it was the union, not Cuban, who proposed the elimination of the cap, an idea he says "was even worse for the NBA than the union's prior proposals."