Miami Heat: 3 Times They Should Have Been Fined For Tampering But Weren’t
Miami Heat: Should Have Been Fined For Tampering – Bay With Tracy McGrady
There is this famous story about the time that the Miami Heat tried to acquire Tracy McGrady in free agency.
The Alonzo Mourning To Tracy McGrady Pitch On Biscayne
NBA Reporter, Brian Windhorst, famously and most recently told it on an episode of The Woj Pod, with Adrian Wojnarowski.
"They bring him down on a private jet and they bring him to Alonzo Mourning‘s house on the same day. And they have drinks and they hang out and you know Zo was, like, one of the coolest guys in the league. He still is one of the coolest guys in the league. They’re chilling at Zo’s house and all of a sudden, this speedboat pulls up. And Zo says, ‘Hey Tracy, let’s go for a ride.’ They get into the speedboat."
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"They hit go and the speedboat goes 80 miles an hour across Biscayne Bay, zapping by the arena, downtown Miami, beautiful. It pulls in to Pat Riley‘s house down the cove. And Riley’s standing there holding the max contract offer.”"
While there doesn’t seem to be anything that terribly sneaky to it, there does seem to be something there. They say that if it smells like a duck, sounds like a duck, and walks like a duck… then it must be a duck.
That is the case here. Now, T-Mac ultimately didn’t sign with Miami, so that may be something there too.
Had it went down though, they could have been suspected, convicted, and fined for tampering here too. It was just all a whole lot.