The NBA and its players association can't even agree on what Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban proposed during a meeting between owners and players last week. Players association executive director Billy Hunter told Grantland.com's Bill Simmons that Cuban made a proposal he called "the game changer," which would replace the salary cap with a heavy luxury tax for teams that spent beyond certain levels. NBA senior vice president Mike Bass told The Associated Press that Hunter made "several misstatements" during his hour-long podcast with Simmons. Among them was the revelation of the salary cap plan, which Bass said was actually an exception to the cap, not the elimination of it. "On behalf of the league, Mark Cuban proposed adding a new salary cap exception, not eliminating the salary cap," Bass said. "It was the union that, in response, proposed eliminating the salary cap, a proposal that was even worse for the NBA than the union's prior proposals." However, during the interview on the BS Report, Hunter described in vivid detail the proposal to eliminate the salary cap that he said came from Cuban. "We took that idea back into our room and we in turn responded with something similar," Hunter said. "I saw the reaction that (Cuban) had to it. I saw the reaction he had to it and two or three other owners in the room who were really excited about it. Read more: http://espn.go.com/dallas/nba/story...s-owner-mark-cuban-propose-dumping-salary-cap
