NBA’s Knicks, Sixers tampering investigations need to produce clarity
New York TimesSo, what exactly constitutes tampering these days? And how will the league’s actions on that front in the coming weeks and months change free agency in the future? The first is the most salacious variety that everyone thinks of when the word “tampering” comes up: A team blatantly contacting another team’s player about future employment, whether directly or via intermediaries, while that team’s season is still going on. The first of those two tampering categories is probably more aptly called “cap circumvention” than “tampering.” Nonetheless, the league technically considers it the latter since it involves making future agreements with a possible free agent — something that is illegal under the league’s collective bargaining agreement. What’s interesting here is that if the league is looking at Harden’s case, does it want to look at others that implied a similar wink-and-a-nod toward future payouts?
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