The Chicago Bulls and Miami Heat will each lose their next available second-round NBA draft pick for tampering violations related to the signings of Lonzo Ball and Kyle Lowry in the offseason, the league announced Wednesday.

Does it say what exactly they did

Haven't read into it too deep yet, but i'm pretty sure it's as simple as they discussed a contract before they were allowed to have that discussion.

Ah okay, I thought they might of done something super shady that they are trying to keep iunder the rug, will go look into this though

This post was edited by yoitsbick on Dec 1 2021 12:15pm

"Details of their respective sign-and-trade deals for Lonzo Ball and Kyle Lowry were reported the moment free agency opened at 6 p.m. ET on Aug. 2. League rules bar negotiations before the start of free agency. Given the machinations required to execute the complicated transactions for Ball and Lowry, it was actually impossible for the Bulls and Heat to iron out all the necessary details of those agreements in mere seconds."


Teams have to be smarter than that, you would think they'd wait and at least make it seem like they had a negotiation at the proper time...

Lmaoooooo, it took the investigation this long? Could have done this in like 20 seconds.

Oh no a second round pick? How will they ever recover

As the reigning MVP of the NBA is a 2nd round pick.

I wonder what the ratio is of 1st to 2nd round MVPs…
Regardless, in this era of basketball I do feel like 2nd round picks are getting more hits than ever before. Maybe I’m biased though, would be interested to see some numbers

ratio would be something like 50:1