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Amid cries that the second apron is acting as a hard salary cap, NBA commissioner Adam Sliver is standing firm on the mechanism that he reiterates was collectively bargained.
Silver addressed the subject at a news conference from the Summer League in Las Vegas Tuesday night, days after Victor Wembanyama’s new contract raised the temperature around the topic.
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Wemby’s deal raised alarms
Wembanyama agreed to a five-year, $252.2 million max extension to remain with the San Antonio Spurs on Friday. He was eligible for a five-year, $302.8 million supermax extension, meaning that he left $50-plus million on the table.
He presumably did so to allow the Spurs to operate under the NBA’s punitive separate apron in an effort to maintain competitive for NBA championships.
“Spurs family, I’m here to stay,” Wembanyama wrote on social media. “Whatever it takes.”
This has raised outcry that Wembnayama is taking on the financial burden of running a competitive team rather than the Spurs as teams are reluctant to go into the second apron. The Cleveland Cavaliers were the only team to do so last season.
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Silver: The system is ‘working’
On Tuesday, Silver was asked if the second apron acting as a hard cap was an unintended consequence of the league’s Collective Bargaining Agreement with players. His response was blunt:
“It’s certainly not an unintended consequence,” Silver said. “I mean, when you have a salary system in place as we do, every general manager is going to need to make mixed basketball and business decisions.”
Silver touted the effectiveness of the current CBA that he argued was on display in the NBA Finals between the big-market New York Knicks and small-market Spurs.
Adam Silver has no interest in relitigating what’s already been collectively bargained.
(IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect / REUTERS)
“We just saw the Finals between essentially the largest market in the league in New York and one of the smallest markets in San Antonio. And you all can tell me, in terms of the media, but it seemed that there was not much of a storyline around market size, something I’ve been used…
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Author : Jason Owens
Publish date : 2026-07-15 05:49:00
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