First off kudos to the league for at least saying they are “investigating”.
There is bad blood with “MaverKnicks” and that he came out and said about Brunson and then pulled a tank. Pretty transparent and then you have Kidd’s statement which if IM cuban i’d be tempted to fire his ass for that. Thats their problem.
“Integrity” of the game is important but it starts with the fans, and tanking blatantly is a slap in the face to the fans who bought tickets and the TV rights.
As for screwing the knicks, not sure Dolan has to publicly file a protest and the NBA transparently show they did. Knicks could be having fits and letting the league office know it. WE know it, they know it.
Seems fair as knicks fan the protection be lifted if its determined Dallas acted in bad faith and injured the knicks. Maybe they just take the protections off for next year? Not quite fair, but seems issues like this are never really resolved fairly.
Second round pick for Brunson was not fair if it was deemed knicks Tampered and injured Dallas best interests.
As a fan I want whats best for our team and the pick that they ****ed with THIS YEAR. This was an egregious abuse of good faith and it seems fair, but thats not what always happens. Perhaps there is a light penalty and its addressed with harder language going forward to correct this flaw in the system.
If we did it? Not sure why we view ourselves as a bad luck franchise. We ****ed ourselves up over many years. We abused lady luck we rarely gave her an opportunity to shine.