{"id":5380,"date":"2025-07-12T23:33:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T23:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/5380\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T23:33:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T23:33:02","slug":"fred-vanvleet-elected-president-of-nba-players-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/5380\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred VanVleet elected president of NBA players&#8217; union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"78113ad4-1ac7-0c04-dada-388a6ff4e15e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/hou\/houston-rockets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Rockets<\/a> guard <a data-player-guid=\"6c6e5179-fc67-908e-bc50-0a5580d64159\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/2991230\/fred-vanvleet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fred VanVleet<\/a> has been elected as the new president of the National Basketball Players Association, succeeding <a data-player-guid=\"650bab3d-b658-cba4-a596-044c1e1fa8c0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/2490149\/cj-mccollum\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CJ McCollum<\/a> of the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"64d73af6-b8ec-e213-87e8-a4eab3a692e7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/wsh\/washington-wizards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Wizards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>VanVleet was voted NBPA president during the Board of Player Representatives meeting and will begin a four-year term immediately.<\/p>\n<p>McCollum&#8217;s term expired and he will transition to an advisory role.<\/p>\n<p>McCollum, who served as president for the past four years and previously was an executive vice president (2018-21), led the NBPA in negotiations to complete the seven-year collective bargaining agreement in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>VanVleet, a 2019 NBA champion with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"5a9c33b8-63fd-ff34-a833-925fe89320a6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/tor\/toronto-raptors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> and 2022 All-Star who has set records for the highest-paid contracts ever for an undrafted player, is regarded as someone who has seen every level of competition and exhibits advocacy for the union.<\/p>\n<p>VanVleet also spent time in the G League and was a key part of the Raptors 905&#8217;s championship team in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>He recently signed a <a href=\"http:\/\/two-year, $50 million contract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">two-year, $50 million contract<\/a> to remain in Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Rockets guard Fred VanVleet has been elected as the new president of the National Basketball Players Association,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-5380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}