NEW YORK — The NBA is trying harder to do the impossible: stop tampering.
A memo distributed to teams proposed harsher penalties for forbidden activities around free agency, including raising the fine for tampering to $10 million and unauthorized agreements to $6 million per team and $250,000 per player.
Additionally, the league proposed to increase enforcement of player-to-player tampering and randomly audit five teams each year.
The memo was reported by The Athletic and hardly a surprise. In the wake of a high-profile free agency that dominated the NBA narrative for an entire season, Commissioner Adam Silver acknowledged in July the league allowed “some slippage” with tampering rules before free agency and he was contemplating ways to crack down.