06-27-2023, 06:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-27-2023, 06:59 PM by SkenfromLMF.)
(06-27-2023, 06:13 PM)F Gump Wrote: Technically O'Max is not yet a Mav.
Yet the fact he will be one soon has been no secret. In past days, any mention by the league (or the teams) would have all waited until the trade was actually finalized and approved. But this year Silver "announced" trades of picks in almost real time during the draft, and with some of them using verbiage saying these draft picks have been swapped in a deal to be finalized later. But it was only the picks - where they were headed - that got announced. I don't know why.
So on a technicality of the CBA the players under contract cannot be discussed by other team until the trade is official - tampering
However the player's draft rights do not "contract" them. The league is trying to adjust so that all of the photos are not of Luka wearing the Hawks hat and Trae wearing the Mavs'.
One of the best things about the NFL draft is "we have a trade to announce" unfortunately the league has a moratorium on the picks being traded the day of... until the pick is announced.
Some of those deals are held up by the Stepien rule - way to go Norm Sonju.
BTW speaking of Norms, Hitzges retired the morning after the draft - He was the latest of the Dallas media Mount Rushmore to retire: Sherrod, Galloway, Norm, Reiner, Brad Sham.