There are no formal NBA rules against players backing out of commitments, but it is widely frowned upon because it disrupts plans made by teams throughout the league.
BACKS OUT OF BIG EAST Boise State has backed out on a commitment to join the Big East and will remain a member of the Mountain West in 2013.
During the same time, he was a backup choice for the Wolverine character in "X-Men" and got the part after the original actor, Dougray Scott, backed out because of a conflicting film commitment.
But once it crossed an imaginary threshold I had drawn for myself, the urge to back out of commitment was stronger than the simultaneous desire to push through my fears for love.
Snead, a former Florida recruit, backed out of his commitment there when he learned the Gators were going after Tim Tebow, last year's Heisman Trophy winner.
Delphi came close to emerging from bankruptcy in March 2008, only to see that plan collapse when investors backed out of a commitment to provide $2.55 billion in financing.
Although Smith said Gillispie had also planned to hire him, he said Jordan probably would have backed out of his commitment if Turgeon had not done so.
At the time Clinton backed out of his commitment to join the ROTC, which would have required him to go on active duty after finishing law school, the Selective Service system was in turmoil, as President Nixon struggled to ease anti-war sentiment on college campuses.
Ambrose originally was scheduled to address the group when it convenes in April, but at some point it is not clear when he backed out of the commitment.
