The National Basketball Association announced on Tuesday that they fined the Los Angeles Clippers $250,000 for breaking the NBA’s “anti-circumvention” rules.
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“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 National Basketball Association statement said.
National Basketball Association regulations prohibit franchises from offering a player anything outside of a contract with the team under the current collective bargaining agreement. The National Basketball Association found that the Clippers’ July 2 free agency meeting with Jordan included a third-party endorsement offer.
It seems the Clippers did wrong by having a third party there at the meeting and, of course, getting caught.
It isn’t hard to see why both the Mavericks and the Clippers coveted Jordan and went to great lengths to secure his signature.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the Clippers tried to sell the Los Angeles market to Jordan. That makes this a fairly costly blunder of a pitch, although it’s obviously not almost as costly as losing Jordan appeared to be to the Clips at the time.
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This is the second fine levied in connection with Jordan’s free-agent saga. It was deemed that the potential opportunity did not swing the decision for Jordan to return to the Clippers in the four-year, $87 million contract, so it doesn’t affect the transaction between both parties.
