NBA union boss ‘optimistic’ there won’t be a lockout next year (Ball Don’t Lie)

Michele Roberts speaks at a union event during the 2015 NBA Finals. This July, Kevin Durant decided to join the Golden State Warriors. The combination of those two factors — of a player and organization maneuvering within the system's bounds to create what looks like a fearsome super-team, something Commissioner Adam Silver expressly doesn't want; and of a chaotic financial environment put completely on tilt by a ton of money hitting the system all at once rather than in stages, which the NBA proposed but the National Basketball Players Association rejected — have led many to believe that we might be on the verge of another lockout.