(08-07-2021, 11:10 PM)Mavs2021 Wrote: It´s funny, but I think the main problem the NBA has with all of this, is that it´s a total buzzkill. They build up expectations, rumours and within 24-48 hours it´s all done. It doesn´t play out in public anymore. Gosh remember all the f´n VAJ drama. In the past the NBA dictated the news for at least a week or two, now it´s barely two days.
The whole process needs to be reviewed from all sorts of angles. Maybe you do it like soccer. Six months before a pending free agency a player is free to negotiate new deals with other teams without the consent of his current team and already allowed to sign a deal.
Everything longer than six months out, the chasing team has to ask the current team for permission to approach the player, which can be accepted or denied. That way the releasing team is also officially aware of the specific interest and can now decide whether they want to trade the player immediately or still run down the contract. That´s a pretty simple rule. YES or NO, there is no grey zone, where the agent´s dentist talks to the florist of the player´s mother.
Good point about the buzzkill.
But Kawhi is still out there and should cause drama and the contract extensions didn't help either.
About soccer. The six month before thing always causes to much of bad drama. Players harrased by their own fans, or being reached out on just before important games.
Just think about rumors about CP3 leaving just in the middle of the finals and him playing bad then.