Three NBA teams fined for tampering

[AaronPDX]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2013/06/10/nba-teams-filing-tampering-charges/2409499/

The one named is the Atlanta Hawks. Wonder if the Kings are one of the other two for Malone's comments on Grant Napear's show last week regarding Chris Paul ??

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[Fear the Putin]

probably

 

[Livinthedream]

Wouldn't be surprised.

 

[HereWeBoogie]

i thought he made the CP3 comments during his introduction press conference?

 

[Bricklayer]

i thought he made the CP3 comments during his introduction press conference?

I wondered about that too. But I think he was already using "we" to refer to the Kings, and that was the whole reason Grant was interviewing him. In any case, I doubt the NBA is going to play blind because of a technicality like that anyway.

 

[jalfa]

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Updated tampering story: Sacramento was 3rd unknown team, joining Atlanta & - according to @ESPNSteinLine - Houston - http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2013/06/10/nba-teams-filing-tampering-charges/2409499/ …
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Sam Amick ‏@sam_amick 1m

Kings confirmed the fine to USAT & issued statement - http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2013/06/10/nba-teams-filing-tampering-charges/2409499/ …

so yeah, it was the Kings.

 

[Bricklayer]

so yeah, it was the Kings.

Oops.

While its not quite a drunk driving charge, I'm not sure "hi boss I just cost you $100k before I even coached my first game!' is a great introduction.

 

[macadocious]

While Malone should know better, he was put in an awkward spot. The Kings.com interviewer asked him a loaded question about Paul coming here. I'm sure had he phrased it something like "We would be fortunate to have a player like Chris Paul play for us." or "Any team would love to have Chris Paul." etc.; he probably would have been fine.

 

[Glenn]

While Malone should know better, he was put in an awkward spot. The Kings.com interviewer asked him a loaded question about Paul coming here. I'm sure had he phrased it something like "We would be fortunate to have a player like Chris Paul play for us." or "Any team would love to have Chris Paul." etc.; he probably would have been fine.

Or simply saying he can't comment. He'll learn.

 

[VF21]

While Malone should know better, he was put in an awkward spot. The Kings.com interviewer asked him a loaded question about Paul coming here. I'm sure had he phrased it something like "We would be fortunate to have a player like Chris Paul play for us." or "Any team would love to have Chris Paul." etc.; he probably would have been fine.

I think saying a certain player would look good in a Kings uniform is a pretty innocent answer, and quite a distance from telling your potential STH in a sales promo that you're working on getting Chris Paul and Dwight Howard to come to your team.

So I agree that he could have phrased it better, but whoever asked the question should also have known better...I'd have to go back and see if I recognized the voice, but it wouldn't surprise me at all to find it was our august beat writer.

 

[LPKingsFan]

I think saying a certain player would look good in a Kings uniform is a pretty innocent answer, and quite a distance from telling your potential STH in a sales promo that you're working on getting Chris Paul and Dwight Howard to come to your team.

So I agree that he could have phrased it better, but whoever asked the question should also have known better...I'd have to go back and see if I recognized the voice, but it wouldn't surprise me at all to find it was our august beat writer.

I saw on Twitter that it was Jon Santiago.