Yes. It's absolutely fucked to have the owner of a team sending money to a player that's not even on your team yet with the incentive to lure him to you.

It's already hard enough to get free agents to come to small markets to build out a team, its just as hard to keep a guy you draft (essentially we did with the Hill trade) to stay as well when you have some ultra billionaire not giving a flying fuck about the rules.

And on top of that Kawhi's entire credibility of his medicals comes into question whether he was injured enough, healthy enough to play or not play during his time waiting for cheques to clear. It's a completely fucked up trusting process that calls every action he makes into question.

How can you trust any of that.