In 2021, the Nets Apparently Paid for Houses for Stars’ Girlfriends

>***A very high-ranking official with the Nets who had a lot to do with the money said basically, there’s a blank check as soon as these guys got here – whether that’s buying a girlfriend or a girlfriend on the side a house in California for a week, whether that’s just putting up money for the boys and the homeboys and equipment for random s\*\*\*, they’re totally cool with that.***
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>***Just renting a house on the team dime. These guys don’t pay for a lot of personal stuff themselves. And so, the financial team of the Nets would kind of come every week or so, they’d be like, “OK, we thought we had this under control. We’ve got to redo the budgets every week.” And they were like it was just a new thing every damn time.***
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>***There’s a lot of things that the Nets do that aren’t kosher. There’s a reason they have this kind of kremlin-esque wall around everything they do. During the middle of COVID, they were working out half the team – well, really, Kyrie, KD and their friends on the team – out in Kobe’s old gym in California. You weren’t allowed to do that during COVID.***
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>***They were running a secret camp the whole time, trying to get Kyrie and KD in shape***

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>Salary-cap circumvention is a serious charge. The Collective Bargaining Agreement restricts player compensation to only terms specified in uniform contracts. Consequences for violations could be extreme – large fines or even voided contracts.

[https://nba.nbcsports.com/2021/07/16/report-nets-pay-for-houses-for-stars-girlfriends/](https://nba.nbcsports.com/2021/07/16/report-nets-pay-for-houses-for-stars-girlfriends/)

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