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Draymond seems upset with new labor deal

Jaime Valdez / USA TODAY Sports

The NBA and its players union reportedly agreed in principle to a new seven-year collective bargaining agreement Wednesday, which means the league has avoided a potential work stoppage after this season.

While that ostensibly seems like good news for all involved parties, at least one player didn't seem thrilled about the agreement.

Green didn't expound on his aversion to the deal, beyond cryptically hinting that the union had capitulated.

Terms of the agreement won't be announced until it's formally ratified, so there's no way to even speculate about what Green is so steamed about. Even his colleagues aren't sure.

The most contentious issue in the protracted 2011 negotiations was the league's basketball-related income split, which the two sides had reportedly agreed to leave unchanged from the current CBA.

However, it's possible that provision - and others that had been reportedly agreed upon - changed in recent days. NBPA vice president Carmelo Anthony said last week that the negotiations had hit a snag that threatened to push the completion of a new agreement past the Thursday opt-out deadline for the current deal.

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