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So less punishment than the Wolves but 10x the rule-breaking?

That's a nice precedent to set.

 

How is it??? The Wolves had the contract written out how they were going to Circumvent detail from the Agent. They got caught but had how they were going to do it. That’s why they’re worse.

This has fraud but players making side deals. Clippers fined and penalized for previous sanctions and For number 1 not notifying the league of this unique contract. You can get all those penalty’s and fined for not notifying the league.

 

I’m not sure what you mean 10x the rule breaking? Do you mean dollar figures? Because inflation has run rampant since 2000, the max contract back then was 14m and Joe Smith signed for around the MLE. It would be like a team signing a max player for the MLE today and then giving him a max 4 year contract when they have his bird rights to make up for the lost money.

That’s far worse than paying Kawhi Leonard who was already on a max contract more money. Because it gave the wolves a better team and an unfair advantage in their team building.

So no, I don’t think they should lose too many draft picks. If they signed Kawhi for 15m and then were able to bring back PG, Harden, Zubac and sign someone else like Aaron Gordon or Mikael Bridges, then yeah that would be a problem.