If you look at this past offseason, the view is of a tampered wasteland of NBA free agent malpractice. Teams, including the Boston Celtics, already had their filthy paws on free agents before the free agency moratorium kicked off at 6 P.M. on June 30th.
Now coincidentally, this was the first offseason that had that official start time to free agency. Also coincidentally, deals were announced before then.
The league noticed. On Friday, the league announced that the NBA’s board of governor’s were able to unanimously pass new sanctions aimed to punish teams guilty of violating new tampering laws.