I want to know why LeBron is allowed to recruit publicly and others get slapped with tampering charges. NBA know how to turn a blind eye when they want to. Is anyone else disgusted with this double standard.
Vmart wrote:I want to know why LeBron is allowed to recruit publicly and others get slapped with tampering charges. NBA know how to turn a blind eye when they want to. Is anyone else disgusted with this double standard.
Because he's a player, not ownership or management I believe.
I don't think his public statements have any impact on recruiting and it wasn't egregious. Wouldn't it be great from every NBA teams perspective to have AD? Lebron was stating the obvious and it's hard to make the case he was trying to convince AD to come over in that interview. Besides I would think them having dinner together and their conversation there would be more likely to have content that would be seen as tampering.
Vmart wrote:I want to know why LeBron is allowed to recruit publicly and others get slapped with tampering charges. NBA know how to turn a blind eye when they want to. Is anyone else disgusted with this double standard.
Enes Kanter does the same thing
Under the rules, players are not allowed to tamper with other players. However, the NBA realizes that such a rule is essentially unenforceable because players talk to each other all the time, so the NBA just ignores it.
TheGame wrote:Under the rules, players are not allowed to tamper with other players. However, the NBA realizes that such a rule is essentially unenforceable because players talk to each other all the time, so the NBA just ignores it.
Then it’s not a rule. There is a huge difference between Kanter and LeBron he is essentially a GM. A top player on any team is like a GM. This hurts the game and it hurts the fan base. Imagine if you were a Pelican fan and LeBron is recruiting Davis. How would you feel? Essentially he is tampering and it has an effect on the entire fan base and teammates.
Lebron was asked a question and he answered it.
It’s a fine line and perhaps a rule that can’t really be enforced.
Nalod wrote:Lebron was asked a question and he answered it.
It's a fine line and perhaps a rule that can't really be enforced.
This is what it comes down to. If the league wants to avoid this problem they need to forbid media from asking certain types of questions. Lebron did not openly recruit. He simply answered the question asked.
Knixkik wrote:Nalod wrote:Lebron was asked a question and he answered it.
It's a fine line and perhaps a rule that can't really be enforced.
This is what it comes down to. If the league wants to avoid this problem they need to forbid media from asking certain types of questions. Lebron did not openly recruit. He simply answered the question asked.
I can imagine players are also calling others about what its like playing for a coach, or living in a city, etc. Davis and Lebron had dinner. Davis has every right to do that. The Holiday brothers are family, im sure they'd all love to play on the same team. can't stop them from talking or wanting. Lebron wants Davis, he said it would be great. It would.
Knixkik wrote:Nalod wrote:Lebron was asked a question and he answered it.
It's a fine line and perhaps a rule that can't really be enforced.
This is what it comes down to. If the league wants to avoid this problem they need to forbid media from asking certain types of questions. Lebron did not openly recruit. He simply answered the question asked.
Several owners brought this up in the last CBA negotiations. To put in a rule - Tampering would exist for players if they discussed a player under contract with a different team, BUT was represented by the same agent and/or the same agency of representation. Several owners, old guard ones, were pretty pissed about the entire Dwight Howard in Orlando/Melo in Denver/Deron Williams in Utah situations, where teams were tampering openly, but Stern loved the press/ratings it generated. Some of them held the stance that everyone should tamper then no matter what.
The deeper issue is that LBJ is the defacto head of Klutch Sports. While Rich Paul runs it on paper, it's all an open sham.
Another complication is crypto-currency. Brands and other entities are paying players under the table to make up the difference for "leaving money on the table" in a contract. Crypto makes this far easier to manipulate.
OK, let's get real here. Rich Paul told a reporter to ask a specific question in exchange for some favor later ( an interview, a quote, etc, etc, something of value)
The most practical pathway is to void any talk in public about another player sharing the same agent/agency. The rest is too complicated to try to regulate.
LBJ will trigger another labor war. He's pretty much the dumbest fucking person in all of pro sports right now. He could run Klutch quietly and try to build it up. Instead he needs to not just poach players, but rub that shit in everyone's faces too. What a fucking narcissistic jack off.
