DeMaurice Smith

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756 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 16 Jul

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But the salary cap violation makes it far more complicated because the union is a party to the agreement that creates the salary cap.

It's complicated.

So let's start off from the macro to the micro.

Please.

The leagues have an antitrust exemption.

And that means for everybody out there, the leagues can operate in ways that normal businesses can't.

They literally have a defined market.

They have cornered the market on whatever it is, basketball, football, hockey, baseball.

What the law says is that if you have an antitrust exemption, then you must also have a union.

And that union is allowed to come together with its members and with you create a collective bargaining agreement.

So if you think of the ying as the league gets to do whatever they want, yes, the yang is but.

They can be represented by a fully unionized workforce.

Let me just make it 1,000% clear for the people who are listening.

Every time you get done with a CBA, at the end of those negotiations, the first thing that the league ensures is that there is going to be a union.

Why?

Because if there is no union, they worry about losing their antitrust protection.

Macro.

The collective bargaining agreement exists because the owners want it, because they want their antitrust exemption.

The players want it because it gives them protection against an organization that has cornered the market.

All right.

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