The NBA officially announced that Daryl Morey, the president of basketball operations for the Philadelphia 76ers, was fined $50,000 for suspicion of illegal recruitment for posting a tweet about Houston Rockets James Harden in the past few days.
On December 21, Morey posted a tweet about Harden’s first anniversary of breaking the Rockets’ history of assists last year. He deleted the tweet a few minutes later.
Daryl Morey has been fined $50K for this tweet pic.twitter.com/mYvFJlRG62
— NBA Central (@TheNBACentral) December 28, 2020
The insider said that during the alliance’s investigation, Morey explained that the tweet appeared unintentionally and that it came from an automatically formed anniversary app.
Although Morey deleted the tweet, some people still remember that Rockets CEO Ted Brown seemed to leave a comment under that tweet and posted an emoji.
In the end, the league still punishes them. After all, Morey’s tweets about Harden will inevitably lead to reveries.
Since making the transaction request, the 76ers have been on Harden’s favorite list, and the Rockets and the 76ers have been engaged in intermittent deal negotiations. Just below Morey’s tweet, many netizens speculated whether the deal was about to happen, Ben Simmons was about to leave the 76ers and so on.
Currently, the Rockets are still actively trading Harden, and they also hope to trade Harden as soon as possible, because there are too many negative news surrounding Harden, which also affects the atmosphere of the team. A while ago, Harden was forced to undergo a 4-day quarantine because he went to a private party and violated the alliance’s epidemic prevention regulations. In the earlier team training, Harden quarreled with several teammates and even hit the rookie with the ball.
In recent years, the league has been very strict with regard to illegal recruitment. At the beginning of last season, the league imposed stricter regulations on illegal recruitment. In August of this year, Devin Booker performed very well in the rematch. When Draymond Green commented on Booker, he hoped that Booker would leave the Suns and join a winning team. As a result, because of such comments, Green was fined $50,000 by the league.
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