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Article: CBA aims for NBA status. (Continental Basketball Association; National Basketball Association)
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- Black Enterprise
- Article date:
- April 1, 1992
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Terdema L. Ussery II is preparing to use a full court press to improve the image of the Continental Basketball Association (CBA), while lifting ti to fiscal stability. A year after becoming the first black commissioner of a major professional sports league, Ussery is negotiating a new agreement with the National Basketball Association (NBA) that should have the two leagues working closer together than ever before. At press time, the details of the new contract with the NBA were still being negotiated. If completed, Ussery says the deal "will be much more expansive" than the three-year, $2.7 million player/referee developmental contract the two leagues signed in 1989.
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