NBA commissioner Adam Silver said he doesn’t anticipate a lockout between the owners and the players union when both sides have the ability to opt out of the current collective bargaining agreement in 2017.
Silver said during halftime of Game 5 of the NBA Finals between the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers that the current deal is “fair” and that he doesn’t have a “high level of concern” with the possibility of a lockout.
The commissioner essentially repeated his stance from March when he said that it’s “premature" to talk about a lockout because he hasn’t talked to the owners about it.