06-27-2021, 12:29 AM
(06-26-2021, 11:40 PM)F Gump Wrote: I was also struck by the bizarre comment that Carlisle offering his opinion on the next Mav coach constituted "tampering" according to NBA rules. That's just factually wrong.If you have a citation limiting tampering to remarks about players who might come to your own team, please share it with us.
Tampering pertains to something said or done that may be seen as trying to entice a player or coach under contract to work for your team. Did he? No. I'm not not sure Kidd was under contract at that point, but we can be certain RC definitely did not work for the Mavs. So he was free to offer his own educated opinion on the Mavs choices, because he was not speaking for Dallas. If the Mavs didn't like it, tough beans, get over it.
Where do you find that limitation in the rules?
"Not minding your own business" can be highly annoying to other teams, but it's not necessarily tampering.
Did reporters want to know his thinking about the chaos in Dallas, and did it make a story of interest? Yes. Was it none of his business to give a comment, and should he have just kept his thoughts to himself, like he did so many times with the Mavs? Maybe. Was it a bit of poor form for him to maybe try to sway the decisions of an organization that he had just ditched? Perhaps. But it definitely wasn't tampering.