The NBA Used An Espionage Trick Known As 'Canary Trap' To Catch Teams Leaking Info To The Media

The NBA fined Detroit Pistons president of basketball operations Joe Dumars $500,000 in 2010 for leaking information to Yahoo! Sports NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski according to Kevin Draper of NewRepublic.com. It is one of the largest known fines for an individual in NBA history, equaling Mark Cuban's largest fine after repeatedly criticizing league officiating. But what is really interesting is how the NBA caught Dumars passing "confidential league memos" and it is straight out of a spy novel ...