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Houston Rockets defender Fred VanVleet has been elected arsenic the caller president of the National Basketball Players Association, sources told ESPN, succeeding CJ McCollum of the Washington Wizards.
VanVleet was voted NBPA president during the Board of Player Representatives gathering and volition statesman a four-year word immediately.
McCollum's word expired and helium volition modulation to an advisory role, sources said.
McCollum, who served arsenic president for the past 4 years and antecedently was an enforcement vice president (2018-21), led the NBPA successful negotiations to implicit the seven-year corporate bargaining statement successful 2023.
VanVleet, a 2019 NBA champion with the Toronto Raptors and 2022 All-Star who has acceptable records for the highest-paid contracts ever for an undrafted player, is regarded arsenic idiosyncratic who has seen each level of contention and exhibits advocacy for the union.
VanVleet besides spent clip successful the G League and was a cardinal portion of the Raptors 905's title squad successful 2017.
He precocious signed a two-year, $50 cardinal contract to stay successful Houston.
