“Throwing in the Towel” is an article about the NBA and that changes it has made over the last couple of years. For example for the first time ever in the NBA the teams have no financial incentives to play better. Due to this change players like LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, and Amar’e Stoudamire have become independent agents. Another large change is the amount of income the NBA has. In 1989 there was a $400 million dollar revenue, now it is about $4 billon. However this hasn’t helped the team owners because the salaries of the players have increased as well. Going up to about 5.6 million a year from the $275,000 it was in 1989.
The article says they are not trying because they really aren’t. Team owners are trading good players for bad ones so they can save up the money to eventually have one really good team. They are not trying to win, they are trying to stay afloat long enough to have at least 1 wonderful season. More and more teams are hesitant to spend money because they never know if it’s worth taking a chance. If the outcome is not certain they are more hesitant because they don’t want to lose money. I think the NBA should regulate salary prices. I don’t believe that a sports figure should get paid that much, I don’t care how good they are. The NBA should set a range of how much they can ask for and how much the team can spend in total on the salary of the players.
The current day version of the NBA draft as started in 1987. The draft/lottery system was started to help make the teams more equal. It was suppose to allow players to be fair picks. The lottery portion selects the first 3 teams of the draft, then the remaining non-playoff teams selected in inverse order of their regular season record. This made it so that even the worst team gets at least 4th choice. It works like this, the teams that made it to the play-offs get first pick, then the worst team of the season goes, then second worst then so on. Some find it unfair because the crappiest teams get to choose first, so if you are a fan of a really good team you come later in the game, possibly after all the good players have been bid on. So now that the bad teams have bid on them, you have to bid even more on them.
The NFL does their draft the same way, the worst teams get first pick. NBA works in the same way as well. If the worst standing score is a tie between two teams then the previous year’s standings in the tie breaker. Apparently these ways of drafting inst as unfair as some people make it sound. If all of the major sports leagues are doing the same thing then they must find it to be the fairest way of drafting new players into the game. I suggest that if someone doesn’t like it then they don’t watch the sport because I don’t think it will change.
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