NBA Veteran Filed Pension Suit Too Late, Plan Tells 2nd Cir.

The National Basketball Association’s pension plan asked a federal appeals court to toss a lawsuit by a 73-year-old former player who the plan says filed suit far too late.

Zaid Abdul-Aziz, who retired from the league in 1978 after a 10-year career with multiple teams, has no basis for seeking new cost-of-living adjustments added to the plan years after his retirement, the plan told the Second Circuit in a June 25 brief.

The plan cautioned the Second Circuit that Abdul-Aziz’s legal theory would have massive, nationwide consequences.

“If Aziz prevails on his far-reaching claims, pension plans across the country would ...