Bruce Levine

A lot of people like him, a lot of people don't in the Players Association.

So with that in mind, it's not necessarily the guy, even though he might be the guy interim.

Yeah, well, like you stated, Layla, it's two very different issues.

But the impact on the Players Association is, if you're an owner sitting there right now watching this, you're going, well, yeah, maybe good for us that Tony's not there anymore.

On the other hand, you don't know who the new guy is going to be or the new philosophy.

The fact that you haven't had any negotiations with whoever the director is and the players is,

thoughts about who that is.

It's going to be really interesting to watch because Tony obviously is facing some big issues on his own.

The idea that is he going to be able to avoid a long trial or go to court to defend himself that the funds weren't misappropriated.

Whatever it is, he felt at this time

that distraction was too much.

He had to step aside.

He wasn't going to be able to represent the players or himself in the way that he wanted to, regardless of whether he's innocent or guilty of all of this.

But for the players, it's a much different dynamic because it's a little unsettling not to have the guy that's been there for 12 years running the union for you and the consistency of the message and the guy.

I mean, a lot of the players...

Loved Tony Clark and loved the way that he goes about watching the union and watching everything and defending them.

So it's just going to be a fascinating thing.

And the timing of it, I don't think you could say it could be worse for the players because we don't know that.

We don't know who the next real voice of the Players Association is.

push associations going to be.