[fredr123]

Originally Posted by octothorp

And it gets worse. Stackhouse publicly flaunts the fact that he'll wait until 30 days has passed, get bought out by NJ, and return to Dallas for the playoffs. The league is not happy.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3247183

The article mentions that this 30 day rule was put in place after Boston and Atlanta were engaged in similar shenanigans in 2005. They changed the waiting period from 3 days to 30 days. Why not just make it the whole season?