Are NBA free agents colluding?
Did you feel that? Or did the newest paradigm shift in the NBA blow right past you without your picking up the vibration? These movements can be stealthy, after all. Sometimes they arrive in the subtle form of a new contract clause, an opt-out or no-trade sentence that sets the tone for future superstar negotiations. Sometimes it’s simply the height of a money stack that either changes things or changes the way people look at those things. And then, every once in a while, a person like Dwyane Wade puts it right out there for everyone to see, hear and feel. [+] EnlargeGlenn James/NBAE/Getty ImagesLeBron James and Dwyane Wade have played together before, in the Olympics and on All-Star teams. So did you feel it? Because Wade sure isn’t trying to keep the latest shift a secret. Wade’s recent words to the Chicago Tribune, in fact, were as innocuous-sounding as they were enormous. He described the new power structure in a few casual sentences, making the whole thing seem no more significant
