layers to sell their services to the highest-bidding team. Some of the leading players decided that this would harm them and that the way to attack the issue was through decertification. They were not necessarily calling for a permanent end to the union but were trying to clear the way for an antitrust suit, which would be possible for the players only if no union existed. The leaders of the movement said that this would force the owners into a better deal, and they referred to the success of an antitrust suit against football a few years before which produced a better deal from the owners. The NBA responded immediately by locking the players out, which created a greater crisis than had existed before.
In the end, the players voted against decertification and approved the tentative collective bargaining agreement between the union and the NBA, which paved the way for the season to begin as scheduled in Novem
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