Player's union asking Fisher to resign

[bigfnjoe96]

The committee said it based the decision on “numerous instances over the past six months where Fisher engaged in conduct detrimental to the union, including acting in contravention of the players’ best interests during collective bargaining, declining to follow the NBPA Constitution and failing to uphold the duties of the union president.”

Before the committee’s statement was released this afternoon, Fisher responded to reports on Yahoo Sports and SI.com that the union leadership wanted him out.

“I do and have always taken my job as president of the players’ association very, very seriously,” Fisher said during a practice before the Thunder’s game tonight at the Sacramento Kings. “Anyone or any group who questions my intentions in any decisions I’ve ever made that I felt were best for our players I think need to step back for a moment and ask themselves this: Why would I try and ask certain questions and call into review the association that I’m the president of unless I thought there were some serious questions that needed to be answered, things that I, as president, aren’t satisfied with?”

http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...sher-to-resign

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Man here Billy goes again

Dude is just trying to protect his 2 million because Fisher asked for a forensic audit

I hope they expose the crap he's been pulling off

[Dice]

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If the players want to keep what they have in anticipation of a next labor dispute, they'd rid themselves of Billy Hunter. The lockout should have been the 'Waterloo' for Billy Hunter.

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Uh Oh Billy!

Report: NBA players union paid $4.8 million to director’s family members, their firms

http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/24/report-nba-players-union-paid-4-8-million-to-directors-family-members-their-firms/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

And now we see what is at the heart of the current NBA players union fight — nepotism concerns.

This is already a fight where union president Derek Fisher pushed for an audit and Executive Director Billy Hunter got the union executive committee to call off the audit and call for Fisher to resign. And now you get the feeling this is going to get worse.

The union has been spending millions of dollars to do business with companies and lawfirms tied to Hunter, reports Bloomberg in a well researched story.

[TheBrothers24]

I wonder what the committee is thinking now?

They should have fired hunter's *** as soon as the lockout ended.

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He probably has some yes men on his side

[TheBrothers24]

He probably has some yes men on his side

I wonder how many stay on his side with this public now.

Still I think both he & Fisher both need to go for the union to save whatever rep they have left.

[WTF]

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Uh Oh Billy!

Report: NBA players union paid $4.8 million to director’s family members, their firms

http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.c...medium=twitter

This gonna be good.

[TheBrothers24]

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http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--nbpa-executive-director-billy-hunter-sought-union-investment-for-bank-with-ties-to-son.html;_ylt=Aiu.._JBJge92mqe7QbR9TI5nYcB

Seems Ol Billy was using the NBPA as an atm for his kids careers. Unbelievable the NBPA let this happen.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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“Let me say this to you: My children are highly credentialed,” Hunter said. “In many instances, they’re being paid at or below the market….
“There’s nothing illegal,” Hunter said, “and you’re not going to find anything illegal, you or anybody else, if that’s what you’re looking for. I’m not afraid of that.”

So what about the other instances, Billy?

Ya'll notice how he didn't say most but "many instances".

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/sp...ewanted=1&_r=2

[WTF]

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All in the verbiage... well played Billy, well played.

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We understand his chopped up language though Billy... its hard to escape audits scott free

[ScoobySnax]

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Former NBPA treasurer Pat Garrity had planned to challenge Billy Hunter on business practices during the weekend of the 2009 All-Star Game in Phoenix.

Garrity had warned several players and also Hunter of his intentions and several players avoided the scene.

Hunter had sought a $7 million to $9 million investment from the union into Interstate Net Bank of Cherry Hill, N.J., a financial institution that federal and state banking regulators had slapped with debilitating "cease-and-desist" orders, sources said.

Garrity had discovered that Hunter's son, Todd Hunter, was on the board of directors of Interstate Net Bank.

Todd Hunter is also a vice president for Prim Capital, a company that has a consulting contract with the NBPA. Prim Capital has been paid in excess of $2.5 million since 2006.

"Why didn't you disclose any of this?" Garrity asked Hunter several times at the 2009 meeting, witnesses told Yahoo! Sports.
Garrity confirmed the description of events.

Hunter declined comment to Yahoo! through a union spokesman.

The potential conflicts of interest go beyond what Garrity discovered.

Prim Capital controlled 200,000 shares of ISN Bank stock, according to a 2010 ISN Bank letter to stockholders. In addition to Todd Hunter, another Prim employee, executive Carolyn Kaufman, joined the bank's board of directors of ISN in 2004 and was paid $97,000 and $90,000 in consecutive years, according to a KPMG audit of ISN Bank in January 2008 that Yahoo! Sports obtained.

Read more: http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap...#ixzz1tANSpmoy

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Looks like this might get kinda ugly before its over

Now the players union is imploding after the lockout

[ProfessaPackMan]

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The NBPA is being investigated by THE most aggressive US Attorney’s office – the Southern District of New York.

The NBA players union just went from the frying pan — a call by president Derek Fisher for a review of all business practices that was rejected by the executive committee — to the fire.
The United States Attorney’s Office in Manhattan has opened an investigation of the union, reports Bloomberg.

Union Executive Director Billy Hunter was notified of the investigation by subpoena for documents on April 25, according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation. The people were granted anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the investigation.
“The NBPA will cooperate fully with the government’s investigation,” the union statement said.
The union has appointed a six-member special committee that consists of players’ representatives and executive committee members to oversee an internal inquiry that will include a financial audit.

Previous reports had shown a lot of family connections from Hunter to the union — family members working for the union, financial and law firms with Hunter family members getting union business, all to the tune of $4.5 million in the last decade. There is a spider web of connections from the union and relatives of Hunters.
That in and of itself is not illegal — Hunter said his relatives were qualified and said the union’s executive committee was well aware of the connections — but it raises a lot of ethical red flags.
Flags that apparently caught the eye of the United States Attorney’s office. This is spiraling downhill fast.

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