It\u2019s been a good summer for Fred VanVleet. The veteran point guard got a new two-year, $50 million contract with the Houston Rockets, a team that has loaded up and will enter next season as a title contender.<\/p>\n
Now he has also been elected the new president of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA, the players\u2019 union).<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s truly an honor to be elected as President of the NBPA by my peers and I look forward to continuing to advocate for the best interest of all the members,\u201d said VanVleet. \u201cWith a deep appreciation for the complexities and challenges players face on all levels of their NBA journeys, I am committed to approaching this role with the passion, dignity, and dedication every player deserves.\u201d<\/p>\n
VanVleet takes over for CJ McCollum, who guided the NBPA through the last CBA negotiation with the league. <\/p>\n
VanVleet is the kind of respected veteran player who is well-suited to lead the union \u2014a level-headed person who can push back against the league when necessary. It wasn\u2019t just VanVleet who was elected, so was the full board. Here are the other officers:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Grant Williams, First Vice President
\u2022 Mason Plumlee, Secretary-Treasurer
\u2022 Jaylen Brown, Vice President
\u2022 Jaren Jackson Jr, Vice President
\u2022 Donovan Mitchell, Vice President
\u2022 Garrett Temple, Vice President
\u2022 Karl Anthony Towns, Vice President
\u2022 Gabe Vincent, Vice President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a good summer for Fred VanVleet. The veteran point guard got a new two-year, $50 million…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-7390","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\/7390","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=7390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}