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Which NBA Owners Wanted Limited Cash in Trades?

At the end of summary of tentative NBA deal there’s a small tweak to the trading rules:

Cash paid or received by teams in trades is limited to an aggregate of $3M per team annually.

Here’s my question: Which Owners did want Limited Cash in Trades?
Have big market teams said “we have enough of adding cash to every trade”?
Or have small market teams argued “it’s a competitive advantage for big boys”?
Or maybe some teams in the middle have wondered how do they fit into the picture?
Or maybe teams which usually aren’t active in trade market have felt they were left behind?

Frankly, I have no idea and I’m surprised with this change because I thought it’s a small and simple but effective… revenue sharing. So maybe that [allegedly] robust revenue sharing plan made whole idea obsolete?

Well, when in doubt, follow the money…

Larry Coon didn’t publish his CBA FAQ before 1999 so I don’t know what were the rules 15 or more years ago but according to prosportstransactions.com in the 1990s there were only 24 trades where cash changed hands!

In 1999 version of CBA there was a rule about possibility of adding up to 3 millions in a single trade and here’s what happened during next decade plus [still according to prosportstransactions.com]:
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