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>> "I mean, with what they're offering, why do you need agents? It's 
>>slotting of salaries! Stern's charity is disingenuous. The union 
>>has given one thing after another and gotten nothing in return. 
>>We've given up a fourth year for rookies, a right of first refusal 
>>on the rookies, a cap credit to provide the owners with the cost 
>>certainty they want, a decrease in year-to-year contract increases 
>>from 20 percent to 10 percent, a reduction in the maximum length of 
>>contracts from seven years to six, a luxury tax.  "So now Stern 
>>wants to be a pig, asking for more. Why not accept the home run he 
>>wants rather than go for the grand slam? Each thing Billy has
>>offered should have been enough to make a deal. Anybody who thinks 
>>Stern has negotiated in good faith is absolutely wrong. He hasn't 
>>given anything we've asked for. It's a joke. That he would increase 
>>the minimum? Give me one contract ever where the minimum wasn't 
>>increased.<p>

>From: damekmo@teleport.com
>Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 10:24:06 -0900
>To: celtics@igtc.com
>Subject: Have the players been flexible?
>
>Here's a few questions. What changes in the CBA have the players agreed 
to?
>Will these changes help keep salaries from escalating "out of control?" 
At
>what point is it fair for the players to say, "Enough is enough!"
>
>Paul M.
>
>


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