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NBA opens investigation about James Harden and Sixers

NBA – The league blames the Sixers for negotiating James Harden’s contract extension, and the signings of PJ Tucker and Danuel House before the transfer market opened.

An investigation into the signing of Jalen Brunson was expected, and finally, the NBA decided to open a “tampering” case against the Sixers. Tampering is the prohibited practice of contacting or even negotiating with a player under contract. Just talking about a player under contract in the press is tampering.

We knew that the arrival of PJ Tucker was suspicious since the announcement of his signature was announced one minute after the opening of the market, but the NBA decided to conduct a global investigation on the contract extension of James Harden, and the arrivals of PJ Tucker, but also Danuel House.

Philly must deliver emails, phone conversations …

What questions the NBA, is the choice of James Harden to decline his “player option” at $ 47 million, then to accept a contract of $ 68 million over two years, to allow the Sixers to sign PJ Tucker and Danuel House, these two former teammates in Houston. If James Harden had already committed to make this financial sacrifice, before the opening of the “free agency”, it is a violation of the collective agreement.

President of the Sixers, Daryl Morey has already been heard by NBA investigators, and the league also wants to interview other executives, and recover emails and records of telephone conversations.

In the past, the NBA had sanctioned the Bucks for the Bogdan Bogdanovic episode, then the Heat and Bulls for “tampering”, removing each time the franchises a second round of draft. That’s why there were only 58 picks this year in the draft, because Miami and Chicago had been deprived of their second round, following the signatures of Kyle Lowry and Lonzo Ball in 2021.

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