Per NBA rules, no team employee, to include players, can recruit players from other teams. Draymond Green boasts about sending texts to Durant after losing game 7 to Cleveland. Punishment: blind eye by everyone and Durant signed with US.
Sure. But how about that blatant "eye winking" by Magic to go with Kimmel's joke on the show? That's weak but who knows what else Magic and Rob and Jeanie have to answer in these depositions. "The investigation, which has been going on since May, stemmed from comments Magic Johnson made on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” that angered Pacers owner Herb Simon, according to several NBA officials who were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter." http://www.latimes.com/sports/nba/la-sp-lakers-paul-george-tampering-20170820-story.html
If the nba takes picks away and you sign pope/lopez, what exactly will you be adding as the team will be capped out?
This circus has to stop. NOW! Shoot. The Pacers are dead serious about the charges. Ahmm..., seriously? And their smoking gun is the Kimmel interview? WTF! Sent from my E6533 using Tapatalk
I know its ado about nothing but doesn't exactly help us move forward if they do find something and we're punished, pope/lopez just keeps us treadmilling, something I thought most of us wanted to avoid? Anyways I would hope theirs recourse against Indy if all they had was that stupid Magic/Kimmel moment, thats like reporting someone is dealing dope because they saw you hand another person a bag of powdered sugar haha
I assumed there had to be more than that. If not, the Pacers will be getting roasted for this. Makes their FO look even more petty and childish than when they traded PG to OKC for peanuts.
Posted this in the LeBron thread, but it's fitting here as well: You know, in all this tampering madness and the rumors surrounding next summer, I'm thoroughly reminded of what a chip these small market franchises have on their shoulder. I get it, cities like Indianapolis, Milwaukee, and Cleveland don't do much for young millionaires compared to LA, New York, or even Miami and that sucks if you've got a superstar you want to keep, but that's just life. It's especially funny given that most of them couldn't even be sustainable without the revenue sharing the Lakers and Knicks provide. Seriously, when it comes to Paul George, LeBron, or anybody, being the star of stars in a town full of the biggest ones in the world where the weather is unbelievable is a lot more appealing than being in some middling city in middle America. Heck, I guarantee you every one of these owners have vacation homes in Southern California.
The Ringer's Kevin O'Conner The league knows the Lakers are going to leapfrog to the front of the pack next summer and they're doing everything possible to prevent it from happening. I never thought for a second that the league is out to get the Lakers, but with our new FO, they want to see if there are any kinks in our purple and gold armor and they will soon realize, we're about to change the game and there isn't a damn thing they can do about it. I'm honestly starting to believe that LA doesn't only have Bron-George in the saddle....we might actually have a 3rd coming along as well and that is why the witchhunt is on. But all for naught. They ain't going to do ish to us. #GameAtoned #TurnOftheTide
I don't think this is the league out to get us this time. This is a single owner/ front office that is ticked off. They are ticked off that they had to trade PG-13, and they are ticked off that when they made the trade everyone laughed at them for how utterly horrible it was. This proves one thing: We weren't getting PG-13 for anything short of a king's ransom. We wondered why the front office didn't offer the team other than Ingram and Ball? Because Indy never would have taken it.
