: “If the league office’s probe can prove the Lakers were guilty of tampering with George while he was under contract with Indiana, Los Angeles can be punished in several ways, including a loss of draft picks, financial fines up to $5 million, future restrictions on acquiring George and possible suspensions of offending officials.”
Magic Johnson is at the center of the NBA’s investigation: “A nudge-nudge, wink-wink filled interview on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” in April is bound to attract the attention of investigators. Johnson acknowledged to Kimmel in the interview that he’d like to get George but added that, you know, talking about that would be wrong…“We going to say hi because we know each other, you just can’t say, ‘Hey, I want you to come to the Lakers,’ even though I’ll be wink-winking like, ‘You know what that means, right?