Now that trades are starting to happen, we seem to have run into the issue of clauses again. There seems to be a lot of drama here and it's not much fun for anyone -- the teams involved, the agents, and even for me. I believe we've talked about making a change to this before, and I'd like to seriously consider this as one of our offseason rule changes.
FOSCO has proposed what I think is a good alternative: make all full NTCs and NMCs behave more like the modified clauses. Rather than having full trade restriction, players will be forced to provide a list of 'x' amount of teams if their team asks for one. This should allow for more flexibility without removing clauses entirely.
Another option would be to scrap them entirely moving forward, and just expect teams to pay more for the UFAs who would usually get an NTC/NMC. This would likely need to be grandfathered in and would not apply to previously signed contracts unless we come up with a good way to handle those.
Again, this is something I'd like to handle with the rest of our potential rule changes this offseason unless it gets to the point where we just can't deal with clauses anymore. Would like some input from all of you to see where you're all at right now.