The practice of ‘tampering’ is an increasingly common situation within the NBA between teams and players who want to sign a contract before it can be officially negotiated. That is why the North American basketball competition is trying to act more and more frequently on cases in which the aforementioned ‘tampering’ is quite clear.
One of the franchises that is suffering the persecution of the NBA this summer is the Philadelphia 76ers. After announcing that the league was going to investigate the signing of PJ Tucker by the Pennsylvania team, Adrian Wojnarowski (ESPN) has confirmed that it will also do the same with the renewal contract they have signed with one of their stars, James Harden, and with the also signing of Danuel House Jr.
“There are questions in the NBA as to whether Harden already had a prior agreement with the Sixers before starting negotiations on his future contract,” Woj said. This would violate league rules in regards to this situation.
The incorporation of Tucker as main evidence
Although everything indicates that Philadelphia will be sanctioned by the NBA for all three cases, the one that seems clearest of all is that of PJ Tucker. Days before the start of Free Agency 2022, in addition to the fact that he was going to sign with the 76ers, the figures of his contract were leaked: 30 million dollars over three seasons.
ESPN Sources: The NBA has opened an investigation into the Philadelphia 76ers for possible tampering and early contact centered on franchise’s summer free agency class of James Harden, P.J. Tucker and Danuel House. Sixers have begun cooperating with league on probe. Story soon.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 29, 2022
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