Asked if owners were open to other ideas, Ravitch said Tuesday: "Of course we are. We have a lot of flexibility."
But the owners' chief negotiator added: "We're locked only to the fundamental concept that there has to be a relationship between cost and revenue."
Players' union head Donald Fehr said the linkage of costs and revenues meant owners were not really moving away from insistence on a salary cap. Negotiations were to resume Wednesday.
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