If the National Basketball Association and its 30 constituent billionaires decide in a year’s time to lock out the players as the opening gambit of a work stoppage, the past few weeks (and maybe even months, depending on which version of the Kevin Durant-To-Oakland story you buy) may well be the reason.
However you define it, the acquisition of NBA free agents by other teams is now a shining example of raw, brazen tampering, with players serving as agents, either willing or coincidental, for their current teams to poach from other teams with a simple series of persuaisive “we should play together” entreaties.