The NBA has sent a memo to all 30 teams with official guidelines on tampering as they attempt to clean up the issue following the 2019 offseason.

Here are several key points, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic:

- Conduct from player inducing another player to demand trade will be violative of tampering.

- Isolated comments by team official praising another player will no longer be regarded as violation.

- The NBA will not confiscate phones or computers during its five random audits.

- The NBA will also create a hotline to allow teams and others with information to anonymously report potential violations.

The NBA has prohibited Spencer Dinwiddie from using his contract as a digital investment vehicle.

Dinwiddie had planned to convert part of his three-year, $34.4 million contract into an investment and potentially realize profits in 2021 when he is expected to become a free agent again.

“According to recent reports, Spencer Dinwiddie intends to sell investors a ‘tokenized security’ that will be backed by his player contract. The described arrangement is prohibited by the C.B.A., which provides that ‘no player shall assign or otherwise transfer to any third party his right to receive compensation from the team under his uniform player contract.’ ”

Dinwiddie hoped to raise between $4.95 million to $13.5 million. The minimum investment was to have been $150,000.

All 30 teams were notified by the NBA league office that they must certify and submit the precise height and age for every player within the first week of training camp.

Buddy Hield's age was previously recorded incorrectly and corrected in 2018.

The NBA's anti-tampering measures are believed to be aimed towards players acting as intermediaries for teams.

"I can't control if players talk to Giannis and say 'hey, come play with me,'" said Brian Windhorst of the Milwaukee Bucks' situation with Giannis Antetokounmpo. "What I don't want is a player acting as a proxy of a team. To me, that's where I think there could be targeting. And, it's also a fair complaint by the teams who are afraid of getting their guys (poached)."

"That's 100 percent where the league plans to target on this," replied Adrian Wojnarowski. "They understand they're not targeting two players out at dinner. Or two players texting about wanting to play together. What the league says they want to do, what's been communicated to the owners, the teams is when a player is acting on behalf of his organization, when the owner or the GM puts the player up to, 'Hey, that guy is under contract in small market A, start working that guy to ask for a trade demand. You start working that guy, let him know we're going to offer A, B, C and D to his team to get him out of here to bring him here.'

"That's what they're after. When that's orchestrated. I think the player to player... certainly with the (James) Harden, Chris Paul to Houston. And then Harden to (Russell) Westbrook to move Chris Paul out of Houston."

Wojnarowski made a distinction with the Kawhi Leonard situation concerning the Los Angeles Clippers trading for Paul George as Leonard was a free agent.

"As one GM said to me the other day, 'The teams are often the last to know in these instances,'," added Wojnarowski. "The star player often goes out and starts working a guy and then comes back and says 'I want this guy.'"

The NBA Board of Governors unanimously approved new measures to curb tampering in the NBA.

One item that was discussed but eventually abandoned was requiring teams to turn agents into the NBA if they approached them prior to the start of free agency.

"I think Adam Silver really targeted the owners on this one and made this a conversation with them," said Adrian Wojnarowski on his podcast. "I know they did go to every team's basketball ops to get a sense of how some things in practice, some things they had in theory might go in practice.

"I know one thing they backed off that after talking to some teams was the idea that if an agent approaches a team about talking about a free agent prior to the June 30th, 6 PM, that you had to immediately turn them on and they realized that's not really how the real world is going to work. It's probably not beneficial for relationships. No one would do it."

Adam Silver is proposing a new anti-tampering proposal at this week's Board of Governors meeting.

In an effort to enforce existing rules regarding tampering, the league could vote on whether to approve an annual, random auditing of five teams' communications with rival front offices and player agents. 

The owners have wanted the NBA to help level the playing field.

The NBA must receive 23 "yes" votes to approve the new measure.

Teams and league officials will address questions about privacy and the specifics of enforcement.

Silver already has authority to investigate allegations of tampering, including reviewing text messages and other forms of communications.

"I don't think he should have any right to get into my phone," one GM told ESPN. "I wish my owner would vote no, but I doubt he will. You'll only make yourself a target for investigation if you do."

Some executives and agents are planning to wean themselves off electronic communication.

Michele Roberts told The Undefeated that she believes there is a “double standard” between how players are perceived when they choose to change teams versus franchises who decide to trade players.

“If you want to be critical of one, be critical of both,” Roberts said. “Those of us who made decisions to move, it’s really astounding to even consider what it feels like to be told in the middle of your life you are going to have to move. But that’s the business we’re in. …

“No one seems to spend a lot of time thinking about what it’s like to make those kinds of moves completely involuntarily. You volunteer to play or not play. But, yeah, if it’s still the case that if you think you’ve got to suck it up, player, then, hell, you’ve got to suck it up, team.”

This offseason, Anthony Davis and Paul George received criticism for requesting trades to the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers respectively.

The Houston Rockets, however, received very little criticism for trading away Chris Paul.

“No one has said a word about what happens when the team precipitously trades a man, especially a family man, and the consequences that that has on him,” said Roberts. “We spend so much time criticizing a player’s decision to move but no time wondering or thinking is anything contoured about a team’s decision to move a player.

“Now, I don’t think either one of them is evil. If a team has the right to trade you, then that’s the way it works. Similarly, if a player has the right to leave, that’s the way it works too. If the team doesn’t want to trade the player, it doesn’t.”

Roberts believes players are held to a different standard.

“There’s just a perception that owners have rights and players don’t,” Roberts said. “I mean it’s unfortunate that we tend to, on some levels, continue to view players as property as opposed to people. And so, you allow for a certain flexibility as you exercise your property rights that somehow appear to be more compelling than a player’s individual freedom.

“And I can’t figure it out except that there is still this perception that you are property, the team is property and I can manage my property any way I want. If you think that property rights are significant, then they must think you have to believe that individual liberty is significant, but not as significant? So, in my view, more significant. I don’t know why, and it could be because there’s some issues involving race and class and a number of things, but I don’t know that I know why it is. I just know that it is.”

The NBA Board of Governors has unanimously approved the sale of the Brooklyn Nets to Joe Tsai.

“We are thrilled that Joe Tsai is becoming the principal owner and governor of the Brooklyn Nets,” said NBA Commissioner Adam Silver.  “In addition to being a passionate basketball fan, Joe is one of China’s preeminent internet, media and e-commerce pioneers and his expertise will be invaluable in the league’s efforts to grow the game in China and other global markets.  I would also like to thank Mikhail Prokhorov and Dmitry Razumov for their enormous contributions to the Brooklyn community, the Nets organization and the league.  They leave a thriving team, well-positioned for the future.”

The NBA has informed teams they are estimating a salary cap of $125 million for the 2021 offseason.

LeBron James, Kawhi Leonard, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Paul George are currently slated to be free agents in that offseason.

The estimate for the 20-21 season is $116 million.

The estimates are $1 million lower for 20-21 and unchanged for 21-22.

The luxury tax line for 20-21 is $141 million with 21-22 coming in at $151 million.