Yeah, the league might have said, "Either DMo accepts the matched offer sheet without the incentives, or the Rockets renounce him. We don't want to open up the Pandora's box of matching an RFA offer, then redoing the contract after the player fails to show up for the physical." That part was just a bit fishy. It'll be interesting to see who gives him an offer now, if anyone. I doubt he'll end up getting that kind of money from another team, and he's definitely not going to get a Bholic-guaranteed level of money.
But BKN got screwed, too. They cannot sign him, per Feigen tweet. Just weird all around. Looks like other teams chimed him, not just BKN.
This move shows that the Rockets really value chemistry this year. Apparently if you don't REALLY want to be be here than leave.
I agree with this. So basically, even at League's intervention, DMo refused to sign the offer (as @DaDakota suggests), and kept up his "not going to report" thing, and NBA asks Morey, "OK, balls back in your court, you can still rescind Right of First Refusal and make him RFA", and he says ... "you know...screw it." And BKN doesn't get it unraveled back to them. Probably also because NBA doesn't want to open that pandora's box of an RFA blocking a match by not reporting.
D-Mo really should have just showed up for that original physical with the rockets. I'm pretty sure had he done that this mess would have been avoided and he would already be playing with the team. Big mistake by his agent telling him not to show up.
I don't think that has anything to do with anything, we are thin at the Center spot, we still need help if we are gonna be serious about this year. To me this is the league telling everyone what to do, I don't think Morey would EVER let an asset in his control walk for absolutely nothing. DD
