NBPA Reportedly Wants To Use TV Windfall To Cover Health Care For Former Players

The NBPA is "proposing to use of millions of dollars of its share of the NBA's impending television revenue windfall to cover health-care insurance costs for its former players," according to sources cited by Adrian Wojnarowski of YAHOO SPORTS. The plan is expected to cost $10-15M annually. A vote on the initiative "is set for the NBPA's July 20 membership meeting in Las Vegas." Sources said that team reps are "expected to pass the plan with ease and start the process of covering the retired players quickly." The sources added that the union has been "researching the names and addresses of the approximate 1,500 living ex-players and hoping to offer three separate health-care options to them" (SPORTS.YAHOO.com, 7/6).