<div class="article-meta"> <span class="timestamp" data-behavior="date_time" data-date="2021-08-07T18:52:00Z"><span class="time" data-dateformat="time1" data-showtimezone="true">2:52 PM ET</span></span></p> <ul class="authors"> <li> <p>Adrian Wojnarowski</p> <div class="author-overlay"> <a class="icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after" href="https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/31981523/nba-opens-investigations-lonzo-ball-kyle-lowry-sign-trade-deals-sources-say#">Close</a></p> <div class="multi-authors"> <img alt="" class="author-img" src="https://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/i/columnists/full/wojnarowski_adrian.png&h=80&w=80&scale=crop"><span class="source">Senior NBA Insider</span> </div> <ul> <li>Host of The Woj Pod</li> <li>Joined ESPN in 2017</li> </ul> </div> </li> <li> <p>Ramona Shelburne</p> <div class="author-overlay"> <a class="icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after" href="https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/31981523/nba-opens-investigations-lonzo-ball-kyle-lowry-sign-trade-deals-sources-say#">Close</a></p> <div class="multi-authors"> <img alt="" class="author-img" src="https://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/i/columnists/full/shelburne_ramona.png&h=80&w=80&scale=crop"><span class="source">ESPN Senior Writer</span> </div> <ul> <li>Senior writer for ESPN.com</li> <li>Spent seven years at the Los Angeles Daily News</li> </ul> </div> </li> </ul> </div> <p>The NBA has opened up investigations into possible tampering violations involving two sign-and-trade deals completed in free agency, <a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/team/_/name/chi/chicago-bulls">Chicago</a>‘s acquisition of <a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/team/_/name/no/new-orleans-pelicans">New Orleans</a>‘s <a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/4066421/lonzo-ball">Lonzo Ball</a> and <a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/team/_/name/mia/miami-heat">Miami</a>‘s acquisition of <a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/team/_/name/tor/toronto-raptors">Toronto</a>‘s <a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/3012/kyle-lowry">Kyle Lowry</a>, sources told ESPN on Saturday.</p> <p>The NBA’s probe will examine illegal contact among teams and players ahead of the opening of free agency on Monday at 6 p.m. ET, sources told ESPN. Team executives, players agents and players have been notified of the opening of the league office’s investigations, sources said.</p> <p>The NBA instituted more stringent penalties in these cases in 2019, including raising the maximum fine for teams to $10 million and the possibility of suspending team executives, forfeiting draft picks and even the voiding of contracts. Team executives can also have their communications — such as telephone records, texts and emails — randomly audited.</p> <aside class="inline editorial float-r" data-behavior="article_related"> <p>2 Related</p> </aside> <p>Sign-and-trade arrangements are more complicated and time-consuming than typical free-agent player signings, often needing a greater level of discussion and negotiation to complete.</p> <p>New Orleans agreed to trade Ball, a restricted free agent, to Chicago on a four-year, $85 million contract for <a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/4023/garrett-temple">Garrett Temple</a> on a new three-year, $15.5 million contract and guard <a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/6621/tomas-satoransky">Tomas Satoransky</a>. That deal has yet to be finalized with the league office and could look different in its final form, sources said.</p> <p>Miami negotiated a three-year, $85 million deal with Lowry in the sign-and-trade that sent guard <a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/3423/goran-dragic">Goran Dragic</a> and forward <a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/4431679/precious-achiuwa">Precious Achiuwa</a> to the Raptors. The Heat guaranteed Dragic’s $19.4 million team option on Sunday, which allowed them to use him in the sign-and-trade deal.</p> <p>The <a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/team/_/name/mil/milwaukee-bucks">Milwaukee Bucks</a> lost a 2022 second-round pick for tampering charges with <a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/team/_/name/sac/sacramento-kings">Sacramento Kings</a> restricted free agent <a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/3037789/bogdan-bogdanovic">Bogdan Bogdanovic</a> in 2021. With the penalty, the NBA took into consideration that the Bucks did not ultimately sign Bogdanovic — the <a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/team/_/name/atl/atlanta-hawks">Atlanta Hawks</a> did.</p> <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://patabook.com/sports/2021/08/08/sources-nba-to-investigate-lonzo-lowry-deals/">Sources: NBA to investigate Lonzo, Lowry deals</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://patabook.com/sports">Patabook Sports</a>.</p>
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