From the latest article from USA today, Detroit is offering Orlando a second roud pick if Orlando does not send pick #18 to Houston. Isn't this considered tampering by league rules?????? Thoughts..... ROCKET!!! ------------------
i think detroit prefers the red wings of a maxi over the 'quilty' strings of a tampon ------------------ "no matter how good she looks someone... somewhere..is tired of her sh*t"
Where do you see that on their site? I looked all over and couldn't find it. By the way - no, it's not tampering and there is a precedent for this (as I posted a little while back in another thread). Orlando wanted Dennis Scott at the 4th overall pick, but was afraid Seattle (at #2) would take him. So they sent a first round draft pick and some money to Seattle so that they wouldn't take Scott. They didn't - Seattle took Payton instead - and Orlando got their man in Scott. ------------------
Jeez, Is this sight loaded with smart@$$eS or what. mfclark, This would seem a little different than that example. The example you mention is an agreement for their own picks. This would appear as outside influence regarding another team. ------------------
God, if all Detroit is offering is a 2nd round pick, then we can certainly offer that, or even two 2nd round picks. We don't have'em this year, but if that #18 pick can get us Battier or Johnson or White.... I thought the Pistons were actually offering something of value. Certainly we can match or exceed this? ------------------
I would think that Detroit could care less if the rockets got the 18th pick as long as Orlando gives it to us after June 1st. ------------------
I think Northern has "quilty softness" but I don't know if Detroit is similar to Northern. From all the burnt out cars lying around inner city Detroit, I'd think they're more sandpaper than quilty toiletpaper. ------------------ The internet is about the free exchange and sale of other people's ideas. - Futurama
I went straight to Larry Coon, CBA expert, and asked him whether it was legal or not for Detroit to just send a 2nd round pick to the Magic with no compensation. He replied: <<They could do it. One scenario that comes up in expansion years is when a team gives a team something (draft pick, etc.) in exchange for not picking one of their players in the expansion draft -- same thing as the scenario you're talking about.>> So it's not tampering at all. ------------------
