Sixers’ Dispiriting Rebuilding Effort a Plan the NBA Should Hope Never Succeeds

December 1st, 2015 by Kevin Ding Leave a reply »

Let's just imagine what would happen if by some dumb luck or alien invasion the Philadelphia 76ers actually succeed.

In this scenario, the 76ers' horrible commitment to losing to get future high draft picks (and treating the people they do have as disposable assets instead of human beings) works out somehow, and an even worse stage arrives.

Other NBA teams copy them.

Gone would be a functional NBA. Instead, we'd have scads of clubs intentionally being noncompetitive, refusing to pay for established professionals and making a farce of the league.

And people would copy them, rest assured, because that's what happens if anyone succeeds with something—whether it's the Spurs resting their players to the dismay of the league office or taking the shine off the second round with the draft-and-stash usage of international leagues.

As it stands now, though, the Sixers are just hurting themselves and only their small slice of integrity of the league. Could be a lot worse, I guess.

Then again, if the 76ers somehow succeeded and we saw full-out tanking commitments being made by numerous franchi ...

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