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For the past month, LeBron James and agent Rich Paul have been accused of tampering with Pelicans superstar Anthony Davis to get him on the Lakers.
Both James and Paul have been investigated by the NBA for violating the tampering rules after the Pelicans complained to the league following Davis’ request to be traded earlier this season.
After LeBron James publicly endorses trade for Anthony Davis, small market GM's privately seething over NBA's unwillingness to enforce tampering rules. One GM: "It's open season on small markets and our players." Story on ESPN: https://t.co/xnqAQas59i
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) December 21, 2018
Pels statement continued: "…of our organization. We have also requested the League to strictly enforce the tampering rules associated with this transaction." https://t.co/kPI6HOkZrF
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) January 28, 2019
Despite causing a firestorm that has angered NBA owners and execs it seems like LeBron doesn’t really care if they think he’s tampering because he’s going to still talk and hang out with Anthony Davis.
This afternoon HBO announced that Davis was going to be a guest on LeBron’s show “The Shop” despite all the controversy surrounding the two players.
HBO announces Anthony Davis will be a guest on "The Shop" pic.twitter.com/vq2yQSdmfk
— Will Guillory (@WillGuillory) February 21, 2019
Of course Twitter had jokes about LeBron potentially tampering by having AD on the show.
https://twitter.com/J_Velez04/status/1098646776033218561
https://twitter.com/ctapmoney/status/1098652150647975937
— andrew (@_andrewladner) February 21, 2019
— drediddat (@drediddat) February 21, 2019
Aight now y’all just trolling tf outta everyone 😂😂😂
— Red_Sn0w™️ (@LeBrawnGainz) February 21, 2019
https://twitter.com/jmezajr44/status/1098647394256896001