In the NBA, there is a rule called tampering. Indeed, apart from the dedicated ones, in particular the free agency, the teams do not have the right to negotiate with the players or even to attempt manipulations to attract them. Several executives and especially those of the Bucks a year ago, who publicly explained how they wanted to extend Giannis Antetokounmpo, have already been severely fined. Logically there, if the teams are authorized to talk about transfers (but it is not possible to do so), they cannot contact the agents since the free agency will officially start on November 20. According to Brian Windhorst, analyst on ESPN, however, things are not going at all as they are supposed to be.
The draft must be done first of all, but in reality, the free agency has already started. I have spoken to leaders, and there is an incredible amount of discussion already underway. The contracts are almost already offered. Definitely, player agents communicate and tell teams what they want in contracts. I’ve even heard of players who are eligible for an expansion and could be transferred. They have already announced to the teams that would potentially host them what their price for an extension would be. So there are not just discussions about transfers now. There are also some about contracts, and there are a lot of them. ” Brian Windhorst
If Windhorst has all of this information, it’s hard to imagine that it hasn’t come to the league’s ears. Adam Silver will he close his eyes in this complicated time or will he decide to punish? If at the start, solution 1 would have seemed to represent the most reasonable, it is not necessarily certain that the commissioner would act in this way if everything were to be public.
Via ESPN
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