Kolek planning to go pro
Westbrook was traded, not a restricted free agent.
He was under contract and Lebron enticed him to another team. That's pretty obviously forbidden.https://ak-static-int.nba.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2015/12/NBA-Constitution-and-By-Laws.pdf
It seems like the NBA is cracking down on pre-arranged deals, not trades that are mutually agreed upon deals. Players talk about playing by together all the time.
I think the NBA is staying clear of player to player communication unless coordination with a front office is brazen. Investigating the S&Ts seems in line with that line of thinking
And staying clear of ever punishing Lebron James. e.g. He was allowed to go to the Tequila event during the playoff series with the Suns, without punishment. Yet Booker was told by the NBA that he couldn't attend or he would be suspended.
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Wow Jason Kidd is a scum bag. I can’t believe he got another job.https://twitter.com/FakeTJHawke/status/1424848840293851142?s=20
Agreed that Larry Sanders is a POS, hey?
even not knowing he's a lunatic to his players, he was always a terrible coach who spat in the face of the evolution of the game. Him getting another job would be like being a surgeon, routinely and blatantly insisting on amputating the wrong leg of every patient you have, getting fired because that's clearly bad, and getting another job as a leg surgeon a year later despite everyone in the world knowing about your wrong leg amputation habit.
Basketball Twitter was very pro-Kidd and clamoring for him to get another job, which was really weird.
Does no one remember him as a coach? He was awful. Like "make Wojo look like Ike in 1944" levels of generalship. If memory serves he was right during the evolution into the efficiency-focused analytics explosion and just steadfastly channeled his inner meathead and refused under any circumstances to consider those changes.
I’m glad they fired him as Bud showed just how bad of a coach Kidd was.
While I don't at all disagree, I heard from someone who is pretty close to the Bucks front office that he wasn't sure Bud would keep his job after Game 2. Amazing what winning 4 in a row will do.