That's right chicken s***, go back to your coop! Enjoy your two exceptional players in Victor and Sabonis lol.
Were just making it seem like we have more ammo when we really dont... Yall poker face and talk sucks. Im glad we cracked yall once and for all and now youll be lucky to maybe buy in an alley game and the winner gets lunchables and bananas.
Wow. I thought Indy would try and keep what decency they had left after Magic one-upped them on the fine and remain silent but this is like begging publicly to players, agents and media to forget their involvement in this. This just confirms to me that Indy now deeply regrets filing the original tampering charge. While they may have the support of some small market teams in this there is no doubt that the player's and agents are on the Laker's side in this. And when the smoke clears, that's all that will matter. Ultimately the trickle effects will make this the most well-spent 500k in Laker free agency history.
Interesting, but I doubt it. No agent is going to try to piss off a GM, let alone one in LA. Word gets out that he snitched and his career is over. No player is going to touch him. Which is why I think the investigators went to him and he fessed up because the NBA can fine / suspend / ban him. But to help him save face (and his career), they never divulged what he said. Pelinka knows what was said. Pelinka is probably pissed at him, but really, can you blame him? The NBA can destroy his career. $500K to an agent is painful. Announcing what he said is a career ending move. In the end, the NBA did what they could to make everyone happy as can be expected.
Anyone want to tell me why top flight talent in the NBA that are all but guaranteed max contracts need an agent? Just hire a lawyer to make sure details are dotted and crossed and save yourself 10 percent.
Endorsements. Agents get about 4% on an NBA contract and players know what they're getting. Not difficult to negotiate and draw up the contract. But endorsements, agents get a lot more. An active, connected agent can make the player a LOT more money above and beyond the NBA contract. So much that some GMs have asked who a player like Jordan or Iverson really work for.
Some have done it, and just an attorney fee. I think Ray Allen was one of them. But he also probably wasn't a huge endorsement guy.
Galactic-sized hole in this story. There is NO friggin way Mintz knows how much snitching is just enough to "get the league to go after Pelinka to make him look bad, but without getting his client PG barred from signing with LA". Please. It's the largest fine ever, and that was just for innuendo and TV winks. It could easily have included other penalties. Once a law firm goes into an investigation, they go full force. They don't go into it with a limit of discovery set by Mintz. The information needed to to slap the Lakers with a PG signing ban is either there or it isn't, Mintz doesn't control that. It's a ridiculous speculation. Had there been any indication that a deal between LAL and George had been even hinted at the NBA could and would have placed a ban on signing PG. PF wants to come here. That is known. If his agent is doing stupid things to stand in the way of that and PG gets wind of it, he's history. Period. If there is any truth to this, we'll know soon enough because Mintz won't be working for PG.
