Amick: De’Aaron Fox requests trade
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The implications are we’d probably be paying luxury tax for a guy that is banned from the league. It is huge salary relief for Miami and possibly fixes the Jimmy problem? I don’t know. Or requires a lot less of a home run in a Jimmy trade to swing back into contention right now.
I don’t think there is any punishment other than dead cap coming to the team that owns his contract. It was an individual act.
I don’t think there is any punishment other than dead cap coming to the team that owns his contract. It was an individual act.
Thanks for clarifying, but I’m still not buying in. As I said, if two left handed players playing together poses a problem, then why wouldn’t the same be true for right handed players?
I know the popular answer will be that there are far less dominant lefties so they don’t play with one another so much, as compared to righties. But I reject that. More so than many other sports, basketball players — especially at the highest levels — tend to be ambidextrous or at least have trained for many years to be ambidextrous. They are accustomed to not only playing with either hand, but have played with a myriad of other players that do.
More so than dominant handedness, I think it would be more about which side of the floor a player tends to favor. While clearly not a professional player, I’m one that always loved to be on the left side of the block. If you have two or more players that naturally favor the same, I can see how that might pose an issue. But dominant handedness? I’m not seeing it.
If the player that said it truly feels that way, I concede that, to him, it may be an issue. However, I just don’t believe it is widespread. This isn’t like catching passes from a lefty QB or hitting off a lefty pitcher.
I know the popular answer will be that there are far less dominant lefties so they don’t play with one another so much, as compared to righties. But I reject that. More so than many other sports, basketball players — especially at the highest levels — tend to be ambidextrous or at least have trained for many years to be ambidextrous. They are accustomed to not only playing with either hand, but have played with a myriad of other players that do.
More so than dominant handedness, I think it would be more about which side of the floor a player tends to favor. While clearly not a professional player, I’m one that always loved to be on the left side of the block. If you have two or more players that naturally favor the same, I can see how that might pose an issue. But dominant handedness? I’m not seeing it.
If the player that said it truly feels that way, I concede that, to him, it may be an issue. However, I just don’t believe it is widespread. This isn’t like catching passes from a lefty QB or hitting off a lefty pitcher.
https://lastwordonsports.com/basketball/2025/02/01/3-players-nets-include-deaaron-fox-trade-package/
Nets article of what package looks like they suggest package of Cam, Cam, Simmons and picks. Nets have 3 1sts in 2025.
Nets article of what package looks like they suggest package of Cam, Cam, Simmons and picks. Nets have 3 1sts in 2025.
Maybe, but there are always backchannel things even if they border on tampering. This seems to always pretty much work out the same these days. Teams and GM's can go full on old man yelling at clouds to set an example, but they then just end up selling for 50 cents on the dollar anyway. Hello Vlade.
I'm not sure that he will be banned. It sounds as if the NBA already performed an investigation and did not determine wrongdoing, but now federal investigators have taken up the case.
In the event that he is banned from the league, his contract would come off the books immediately.
One might question whether the NBA would even allow the contract of a player who is currently under an investigation that *might* result in the termination of the contract to be traded at all, I don't know the answer to that.
In the event that he is banned from the league, his contract would come off the books immediately.
One might question whether the NBA would even allow the contract of a player who is currently under an investigation that *might* result in the termination of the contract to be traded at all, I don't know the answer to that.
