Absolutely not true. You cannot secretly record a conversation. Both parties must give consent. Ask any divorce attorney or PI.
you also cannot place recording equipment on a PC without consent. Again, wiretapping. A friend went through this in Texas. He caught his wife cheating via a spy program that recorded her instant messages. The evidence was not admissible.
If the NBA tries to go to court with a secret recording they will lose in a big way. They have nothing but an illegal recording. Without that, they got nuthin.
Allegedly he ok’d the taping because he couldn’t remember details of conversations.
So in that regard it may be legal. However, if he was cognitively impaired to the point of needing intimate conversations recorded he may not have been mentally competant enough to grant consent.
The lawyers are going to have an absolute field day with this ...
Maybe not in a court of law, but unfortunately the illegal recording has already been played for the American public and that alone is enough to crucify him and probably align the forces of liberalism and journalism (but I repeat myself) to use whatever private bylaws and loopholes can be twisted under the NBA's bylaws and governing constitution to get him expelled and fined. After all that's what liberals specialize in doing to the U.S. Constitution and using it against the rest of us!
Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. I'm not asserting that the law doesn't provide sanctions for this activity, what I am asserting is that the Bill of Rights can't be used as grounds to take legal action. Only the government has standing to violate the Constitution, not a private organization or a private individual. The Bill of Rights was designed to limit the powers of government to act unilaterally against the populace.