NBA free agency officially started at 6pm on June 30 and it was darn near over within 24 hours with the exception of Kawhi Leonard playing reindeer games dragging it out. At the conclusion of the league’s annual board of governors meetings on Tuesday in Las Vegas commissioner Adam Silver expressed his views on why he believes the NBA needs rules surrounding free agency that are enforceable. That’s me laughing in the background bruh.
“My sense in the room today was, especially when it comes to free agency and the rules around it, that we’ve got work to do. And as I said, it’s still the same principles of fair balance of power and a sense that it’s a level playing field. I think that’s what teams want to know. I think they’re put in difficult situations because when they’re sitting across from a player and whether it’s conversations that are happening earlier than they should or frankly things are being discussed that don’t fall squarely within the collective bargaining agreement, it puts teams in a very difficult position because they are reading or hearing that other teams are doing other things to compete, and at the end of the day, that’s what this league is about: competing for championships.”
He goes on to say, “My job is to enforce a fair set of rules for all our teams and a set of rules that are clear and make sense for everyone. I think right now we’re not quite there.”
Well playas…let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! There are no rules that you can come up with to keep teams or players from discussing plans for free agency before June 30. Teams already know who will be free agents and the darn players surely know when they’re able to move around. That’s like telling a kid not to remember his birthday.
Don’t think for one minute that boyz are literally sitting around waiting on June 30 to roll around before they decide to think about their respective futures. It’s asinine to think that it’s going to happen like that.
All of these players have been knowing each other since they were 12 years old playing on the AAU circuit. They’ve been the best players in the world since they were kids and it’s a small fraternity of folks. So if Mookie and June-June have been homeboys since the 8th grade and both their contracts expire on the same date, they both want to play together and a team has cap space for them it’s going to happen. That conversation took place three summers before.
So Adam Silver was literally talking to hear himself talk on Tuesday. There’s nothing the league can do to stop the progression of player empowerment. It’s here and it’s not going anywhere. It’s funny to me how the powers that be have a problem with players suddenly being smart enough to control their own futures and make their own decisions.
Well playas…TODAY IS A NEW DAY! The players are in control of the bus and they’re driving it to wherever they darn well please and I’m cool with that. Stop me when I start lyin’!
