NBA union seeks arbitration over Bird rights issue

Players Seek to Maintain Valuable Rights in Free Agency

Bloomberg Businessweek
May 16, 2012

NBA player’s association wants to head to arbitration to seek a ruling on whether Jeremy Lin and other players can remain in free agency. The union wants the players to “re-sign with their teams by using the ‘Bird’ or ‘Early Bird’ exceptions to the salary cap” because “those exceptions allow teams to exceed the cap to re-sign their own players.”

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