Do you think any owners are possibly paying players under the table?

[Reid2Achieve]

Yeah in some shape or form.

 

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Probably
Jsually the dirk/wade types but probably not directly...people forget guys like gilbert own business such as fathead...qhats a few extra thousand from there as an endorsement to say a tristan thompson if possible? Probably more money in tristan hitting the open market but there is always a way for incentives

I'm sure there is some kind of "collusion" rule for that type of "sponsorship"
Dirk, Wade, KG and possibly Kobe have probably all been promised ownership stakes but I don't know about paying random players(like a tristan thompson) under the table. If a player gets traded or released, he'd have some serious dirt on you. The penalties for getting caught for somethin like that would be really harsh.