Legal Opinion
Wood v. National Basketball Ass'n
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 21, 1987No. 1454, Docket 86-7173PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WINTER, Circuit Judge:
O. Leon Wood, an accomplished point-guard from California State University at Fullerton and a member of the gold medal-winning 1984 United States Olympic basketball team, appeals from Judge Carter’s dismissal of his antitrust action challenging certain provisions of a collective bargaining agreement between the National Basketball Association (“NBA”), its member-teams, and the National Basketball Players Association (“NBPA”). Wood contends that the “salary cap,” college draft, and prohibition of player corporations violate Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1…
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