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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
and the strike was over a hard salary cap.
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That is a little simplistic. It was not a hard salary cap back then. It was just a salary cap and the problem was about revenue sharing. Let us not forget that the CBA negotiations were pushed until the final year. You don't think it was a huge deal to the players that they wanted to reduce their share of the revenues from 56 to 50%, oh and they expected the players to pay for their pensions and healthcare out of that reduced portion?
The hard cap was not the deal breaker.