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Why teams may be apprehensive about enforcing tampering

Editor's note: This piece has been updated from its original publication on Thursday after Friday's Board of Governors vote. The NBA's Board of Governors on Friday unanimously approved a series of measures to more strictly enforce compliance with tampering and salary cap circumvention.

The NBA power brokers descending on New York this week for the league's board of governors meeting have reacted to the league's beefed-up anti-tampering proposal with a mix of skepticism about its potential deterrent effect and concerns of privacy.

In conversations with numerous league officials, team owners, general managers and agents, some uncertainty was expressed about the means the NBA might use to investigate alleged rules violations.