Forget the fine just force him to go to Dallas.
After having cold feet and spurning the Dallas Mavericks, DeAndre Jordan resigned with the Clippers this offseason after Los Angeles brass locked him inside of his mother’s house until he signed a contract. During that process the Clippers violated NBA rules, sort of, which will cost them $250,000 the NBA announced today in a press release.
“The violation involved a presentation made by the Clippers to free agent DeAndre Jordan on July 2 that improperly included a potential third-party endorsement opportunity for the player,” the release said. “While the NBA’s investigation ultimately concluded that the presentation of this opportunity had no impact on Jordan’s decision to re-sign with the Clippers, the team’s conduct nevertheless violated the league’s anti-circumvention rules.”
“The NBA’s anti-circumvention rules prohibit teams from, among other things, providing or arranging for others to provide any form of compensation to a player unless such compensation is included in a player contract or otherwise expressly permitted under the CBA.”
Ok the Clippers broke some rules, but what’s $250,000 to a guy like Steve Ballmer? Pocket change, plus he still gets his defensive minded, freakishly athletic, free throw missing center back. So in all honestly who came out on top of this ordeal?
This guy.
