My guess is that he doesn't want teams to know he has a medical issue. Maybe he would pass a physical today, but the long term prognosis was not enough to spend $8m anymore given all the acrimony.
My only question is that the medical issue cannot be hidden. Now that every team has noticed the fallout, nobody would just take his words or anybody's words about him being fine physically. I still don't understand the "do him a solid, hush hush" angle. A failed physical is not something you can hide.
plot twitst: DMo makes Pelicians paly off contenders and beats rockets on first play off round.... Would be fun to see it, but it got going to happen
We are talking about why the league might have gotten involved. @rocketjunkie is suggesting the "solid" is not hush hush, but rather all three parties asking the league to rollback to the Nets offer. So they'd all know. Whether we need to know what they asked the league about is inconsequential and fan-centric to call it hush hush ,,, like we matter. If league, union, nets, rox and DMo sit down to get judgement on whether Houston voiding the contract rightfully for physical can roll back to Nets, how is that hush hush To me, the only wrench in that idea is the CBA is fairly clear on the matter, so why bother asking.
Actually I don't think you can give physicals to other teams - patient confidentiality. Each team has to do its own and reach its own conclusions I think. Also the report could be pass for now (meaning he can play), but very troubling. What if he's ok now but the prognosis is his back can go permanently at any time? It would be ok to take a vet minimum flyer on that, but not pay $8m. The rockets my have very well back away from the offer bc of that. Dmo was only getting vet mins from teams - lakers, pelicans etc. no one gave him anything near the nets rockets offers. As I mentioned before, that is very telling.
Hey hp, it was interesting bc I do think there were some gray areas. Even coon - the cba expert, actually backtracked on what could and couldn't happen with dmo. For example, he thought dmo was a rockets employee, then thought he wasn't, then said it was unclear. I bet there were some gray areas (like whether the rockets could match, and just bc dmo could show up, could tear up the match and screw over the nets. In any case, my main thought was that the league was not strictly punishing the rockets if they allowed them the option of keeping dmo as an RFA or making him an UFA. Rockets could have easily started back to RFA and waited for offers to match (and if dmo were RFA, the rockets by all rights could have done any contract with dmo if he agreed while dmo was waiting for offers. Rockets clearly didn't want dmo anymore in my mind.
This really isn't an issue to your take, but there isn't patient confidentiality wrt to teams asking for info directly related to evaluating his ability to perform in an athletic job. Doesn't matter who and when performed previous test, if player withholds then the team can cancel the contract. The CBA is very clear that you cannot keep medical secrets about your ability to perform the contact that you are trying to get the team to sign. What the players can stop is the team releasing results to the media without players consent. However teams can report the basic news of why a player trade or signing was rescinded. The can say "failure to pass physical" without consent, just no further details. And of course, teams don't have to give any reason to the media
Like heypartner said, you can hide it from the public but you can't hide it from teams who want to check out the player. Plus, doctors can ask other doctors about a patient's records, can't they? Even if they had to abide by patient confidentiality, teams would check VERY carefully about his health. The bottomline, not releasing DMo's physical results would not have helped him hide his health issues.
So you'd enjoy seeing the Rockets lose to the DMo-led Pelicans in the first round? WTF are you even doing on ClutchFans?!? Seriously.
Can't wait for the new player press conference to see what D-Mo will say about his situation with Rockets and how he chose pelicans over other teams like T-Wolfs.
It looks like the hype is following DMo to New Orleans. Just saw this in the comment thread of an article announcing the signing: "If he is healthy, he is probably best post scorer in the league." Um... yeah. A few dozen players might disagree. Cleanup on Aisle C
