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WHO IS BILLY HUNTER? NBPA EXEC DIR THE FOCUS OF PROFILES

          With an NBA lockout looming, NBPA Exec Dir Billy Hunter
     was profiled this weekend in three NBA markets.  NEWSDAY's
     Barbara Barker wrote, "Hunter has never backed away from a
     good fight."  Hunter, on his talks with the league: "The
     themes of all the meetings is that the players needed to
     have a change in expectations, that they shouldn't expect to
     be paid so much.  My position is why?" (NEWSDAY, 6/28).  In
     Philadelphia, Stephen Smith called Hunter a "formidable
     adversary" to the NBA and Commissioner Stern.   Smith said
     that unlike the circumstances during the last labor talks in
     '95, there are "no questions about who is going to lead the
     players' union."  Hunter: "We got shafted last time.  We're
     not going to let that happen again.  We will fight.  I will
     not let these players get exploited" (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER,
     6/28).  Hunter: "I like to think I'm conservative.  I don't
     think I'm radical or liberal.  I'm a Republican.  That's
     sort of an aberration.  I believe in what I believe in.  I
     believe I'm eclectic.  I don't believe in any one thing to a
     fault" (Steve Adamek, Bergen RECORD, 6/28).

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