2021-2022 AROUND the NBA: GSW Champs [ARCHIVED]

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Conspiracy theory: did Mavs report this to league because original trade involved 3 way with Powell and they expected Dragic to be bought out instead of being part of trade??

(Have no idea of that even makes sense, just throwing it out there)

I doubt that had anything to do with it, since Dragic didn't have to be bought out in order to make the MIA-TOR trade happen.

It's also been speculated that MIA's finding out whether TOR would be willing to take Dragic was a possible violation, but not so. Teams can talk to each other and discuss possible trades, and they talk every day. "If Lowry wants to come here, would you _______" is not off limits.

I think the red flag was the fact that one day before they were allowed to find out if Lowry wanted to sign with MIA, the cHeat made a hard decision to keep Dragic at 19.4M for a year. Wouldn't they have declined that 19.4M option, to open up cap room, UNLESS they already had a verbal commitment from Lowry followed by agreed terms with TOR? And we saw the same thing with Chicago, who, 1 day before they were allowed to find out if Ball wanted to sign with them, made a hard decision to keep Satoransky at 10M for a year. Wouldn't they have opened up cap room, UNLESS they already had a deal for Ball all set to include Sato?

Those are the things that looked odd, especially the MIA decision. We all saw the reports, when MIA picked up the Dragic option, and one media person after another in the know reported that obviously MIA had a deal lined up with Lowry. And other teams looked elsewhere.

As for how that differs from what happened with all the other players, I dunno, but it's looking like the sign-and-trades that are all but announced early are where teams are being called into question.

Who complained? How about MIL, who got dinged for this a year ago? Also - in that situation, MIL decided not to do the deal, because it could be voided and really mess up their roster building. This time, MIA and CHI deals were completed. What if one, or both, sign-and-trades are voided and those teams prevented from getting such players? There would be fun NBA chaos ahead.