“I want to be a part of ‘every game matters’. Sadly, the NBA is a business, and there are 10-12 teams that try to win every game, and the other half try to get a draft pick.” – Jabari Parker on why he left NBA
September 17, 2024
“I want to be a part of ‘every game matters’. Sadly, the NBA is a business, and there are 10-12 teams that try to win every game, and the other half try to get a draft pick.” – Jabari Parker on why he left NBA
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Or maybe, you just aren’t very good? Lmao
Same guy that had no interest in playing defense. How you gonna complain about half the teams when you wouldn’t play half the game?
Semi-tangential to JP, but I have a solution to the problem of teams not wanting to win, bc I also hate this with a passion.
A league within a league. Every year, up to four teams per conference allowed to declare themselves as rebuilding. Doesn’t change their schedule. They still play the same teams. BUT. They are excluded from the playoffs no matter how well they do. AND. We reverse the draft odds:
The top eight picks in the draft can only go to a rebuilding team, and the rebuilding team WITH THE MOST WINS has the best odds.
This way, you either win to make the playoffs, you win to get the best draft pick, but every team has an incentive to win every game, no matter what. There’s plenty of objections to the above, but if you really do want every team to be incentivized to win, I haven’t heard any system that accomplishes that without creating a fully separate relegation league.
Jabari has to be pretty up high in the bust rankings, right?
Would have been an NBA all-star for sure if he had given even just an average effort on the defensive end.
Ooooof, bruv. Noooo. Stawwwwp
When your boss fires you but you tell the other drunks at the bar that you’re leaving the system behind
7 comments
Or maybe, you just aren’t very good? Lmao
Same guy that had no interest in playing defense. How you gonna complain about half the teams when you wouldn’t play half the game?
Semi-tangential to JP, but I have a solution to the problem of teams not wanting to win, bc I also hate this with a passion.
A league within a league. Every year, up to four teams per conference allowed to declare themselves as rebuilding. Doesn’t change their schedule. They still play the same teams. BUT. They are excluded from the playoffs no matter how well they do. AND. We reverse the draft odds:
The top eight picks in the draft can only go to a rebuilding team, and the rebuilding team WITH THE MOST WINS has the best odds.
This way, you either win to make the playoffs, you win to get the best draft pick, but every team has an incentive to win every game, no matter what. There’s plenty of objections to the above, but if you really do want every team to be incentivized to win, I haven’t heard any system that accomplishes that without creating a fully separate relegation league.
Jabari has to be pretty up high in the bust rankings, right?
Would have been an NBA all-star for sure if he had given even just an average effort on the defensive end.
Ooooof, bruv. Noooo. Stawwwwp
When your boss fires you but you tell the other drunks at the bar that you’re leaving the system behind