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08:56 AM ET 03.11 | If players want to see how tough the NBA is, they can start testing the waters overseas with foreign leagues. If a lockout happens in 2011, LeBron & Co. will be out of work, just like the rank-and-file players. And according to sources familiar with the negotiations, maximum contracts will be under heavy attack. Worse, the owners want existing contracts to be slashed rather than grandfathered untouched into the new agreement. Locking in long-term deals this summer could be for naught. But what alternative do the players have? "If they don't like the new max contracts, LeBron can play football, where he will make less than the new max," one team executive told CBSSports.com. "Wade can be a fashion model or whatever. They won't make squat and no one will remember who they are in a few years."

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