02-13-2026, 10:03 PM
(02-13-2026, 11:20 AM)Mavs2021 Wrote: Do NBA athletes waive doctor/patient confidentiality, when they sign their contracts?At least here an employer does not even have any legal rights to know the illness/injury of an employee, so how can the league verify the validity of an injury. So you´d basically rely on the players telling on their teams to actually prove tanking. You really want to be known as a player that snitches on their own team, when the next max contract negotiation comes up?
That´s why they do these lame fines, that nobody will bother to challenge. It´s all about saving face. The Jazz paid Dybantsa 7M to play at BYU. You really think they care about this fine?
I think there is “overt” tanking (as Silver likes to put it) which is obvious to the point where one doesn’t need to see a doctor’s physical exam to figure out what’s going on. However, most tanking is more subtle and difficult to prove. (Ie, who’s to say Kyrie isn’t ready to come back right now? I bet if the Mavs were 20 games over .500 we would be counting the days until his return.)
“BE CURIOUS, NOT JUDGMENTAL…”