OT: Toronto Raptors fined for Drake recruiting Durant

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  1. KeepOnRollin

    KeepOnRollin Well-Known Member

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    KeepOnRollin, Aug 11, 2014
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  2. speeds

    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    Money well spent.
     
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  3. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Is he part owner or something?
     
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  4. speeds

    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    I think they (the franchise) thought that by making him an unpaid 'global ambassador' he'd be above the law.
     
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  5. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Not really sure how the NBA can fine them for someone that isn't on the payroll, and yet LeBron has been openly, publicly, nationally calling for Kevin Love to join the Cavs.

    I think I'm seeing a double standard.
     
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    PDXFonz I’m listening

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    Truth, sucks to get fined for a pitch that probably carried no weight. Ha!

    Started from the bottom now he's....here?
     
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    Drake will probably be at more Cavs games than Raptors game, I don't care where he's from. And if the Knicks became amazing, he'd be there. Guys a tread

    That being said, uhm, wow? What a weird precedent to set, fining a team over something like that. Really odd.
     
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  8. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Yeah... I don't get it. If I was the Raptors I would contest it. He isn't an owner. He isn't on the payroll. He's a fan. Are they really going to start fining teams for what a fan says?
     
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    He is on the payroll. He gets to write off expenses and gets per diem when he travels around the NBA as a Raptors ambassador.
     
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  11. speeds

    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    For context

    [video=youtube;f3hkKhwzFz8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=f3hkKhwzFz8[/video]
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    Drake also had LBJ at the event but LBJ didn't grow up wanting to play for the Raptors (Durant did) so I guess that plays into what the NBA thinks is tampering.

    Meanwhile Durant's high school point guard Greivis Vasquez said this without being fined...

     
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  13. PDXFonz

    PDXFonz I’m listening

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    Let's just hope the league never notices my Hibbert to portland thread or Paul Allen might hunt me down!
     
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    What about when obama wanted him to go to the bulls? Impeachment?
     
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    Yep. Double standards exist all over this board.
     
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  16. speeds

    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    [video=youtube;0XiSSpcY8mo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0XiSSpcY8mo[/video]
     
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