Importantly, Gary Payton says everything's not so great. And most people would say yeah. Not for blatant cap circumvention. It took dozens of lawyers dozens of hours to work all that stuff out. This was teamwide circumvention, a collective thumbing of Wolf Noses at the league office.
Nobody's blind to the fact that other teams cheat.
You can't let the team that cheated still wind up with the player for which it fractured the rules. At any rate, I think the Wolves will be fine. Flip Saunders has been one of the top five coaches in this league since he got here. Anyway, by comparison, here's all you need to know about the East. The Heat can still win without Alonzo Mourning .