Word came out last night that the NBA was opening an investigation into the Philadelphia 76ers for the possibility of tampering in their free agency deals, according to a report from ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.
There are two aspects to Woj's report which are worth separating apart, since historically they have generated drastically different penalties from the league: tampering and salary cap circumvention.
The first part of Woj's report talked about the sort of garden variety "early contact" infractions which we would call tampering.
