It's an insane amount of coddling. When a player signs a contract, he knows that being traded is a possibility. If he reads what he signs, he'd understand that the team is given the contractual power to ship his ass out. Those are the terms of the deal. That's what the guy gets paid millions of dollars for in return. With like Harden or Nephew, you have players, under the au es of "player empowerment," essentially amending their contracts to add a reciprocal trade clause. With fiascos like what we've been seeing for the past few years, ownership is getting cucked with players essentially adding contractual terms that were never agreed upon by management in the first place. I'd love to see ownership do something, but I don't think it likely with the whole "player empowerment" bull they got going on. Unless the non-coastal owners really do something with the next CBA - which also seems unlikely - I don't see this changing anytime soon.