Adam Silver on NBA Stars Forcing Trades: We Want Players and Teams to Honor Contracts
“From a league standpoint, we want teams to honor contracts, we want players to honor contracts,” he said. “There’s no doubt we’ll sit down and talk about it. I know we can do better. I know the players want to do better because it’s not an individual sport. So if a player is pushing to move out of a city, it,” reports Timothy Rapp in Bleacher Report.
“While the NBA has seen more and more star players exercise their influence and leverage to force trades in the modern NBA, Brooklyn Nets guard/forward Ben Simmons arguably took it to a new level this past season. Simmons, in his sixth season and in the second of a five-year, $177.2 million contract, requested a trade from the Philadelphia.”
