Draymond Green Slams NBA For New CBA: "Players Lose Again"

Draymond Green isn't happy with the new collective bargaining agreement between the NBA and the NBPA. In a series of tweets posted on Saturday afternoon, the Golden State Warriors star tore into the new deal. The issue Green began with was a change in the salary cap that will hinder high-paying teams' ability to bring in more talent. Other changes included in the CBA are a new 65-game minimum to qualify for awards and marijuana being removed from the banned substances list.

"The NBA is curbing the ability of the highest-spending teams, such as the Golden State Warriors and the LA Clippers, to continue running up salary and luxury tax spending while still maintaining mechanisms to add talent to the roster," Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN explained. "The NBA is implementing a second salary cap apron — $17.5 million over the tax line — and those teams will no longer have access to the taxpayer mid-level in free agency. Those changes will be eased into the salary cap over a period of years."

In response to the report, Green wrote on Twitter: "Players lose again…. Smh! Middle and Lower spectrum teams don’t spend because they don’t want to. They want to lose. So increase their spending capabilities, just to increase them. They continue to cut out the middle. And this is what we rushed into a deal for? Smdh! Never fails."

In more posts, he responded to the new in-season tournament expected to start next season. Players will be paid $500,000 for the championship game. "What happened to the 1mm they said when this idea was first introduced?!?!" Green wrote. "Sheesh we lost 500k there too!" When a fan implied he's greedy for being unhappy, Green fired back, "You mean the people who generate billions to make millions? Yeah those people!" In other posts, he complained more broadly about the agreement.

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