charlotte observer--NBA's real issue: What is a "soft cap?'

Rick Bonnell covers the Charlotte Bobcats and the NBA

Monday night they blew up the first two weeks of the NBA's regular season. Commissioner David Stern said there's a "gulf'' between the league's position and the union's.

I don't think the league and the union are massively apart on the key issues, so much as they're somewhat apart on a variety of issues. And it all comes back to the NBA's traditional reliance on a so-called "soft'' salary cap. Here's the problem:

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