Yes they might. But you leaving out part of his argument. He stated, 'host of issues ....' implying multiple reasons not just the moral high ground. The other issue he specifically mentioned was the paying customer. You conventionally ignored them.
The paying customer may be no more than collateral damage to you, but a tanking team is not what they were sold. The fact that there is a 100% mortality rate for humans not all of the current customers will be around. The customer comes first. I'm not willing to shortchange them today for my benefit tomorrow. I'm not corporate america and I'm not going to act like them.
The paying customer may be no more than collateral damage to you, but a tanking team is not what they were sold. The fact that there is a 100% mortality rate for humans not all of the current customers will be around. The customer comes first. I'm not willing to shortchange them today for my benefit tomorrow. I'm not corporate america and I'm not going to act like them.
In early February I went to a sports bar with fellow BU alumni to watch the Beanpot as we do every year. At the end of the game, I noticed a small group huddled around another TV watching the Kings play the Bulls. Now I was in pretty much full tank mode at the time, and they were all cheering the team while I was sitting there thinking "a loss would be great right now".
They were enjoying the hell out of that win, including Bogi hitting some crucial shots down the stretch.
And I thought to myself, what the hell am I doing??? And it dawned on me, just a week or two after I lost my dad, that you can't just go around life waiting for a tomorrow that will never come.
Bottom line, with the possible exception of Dallas, I don't see any of the tanking teams sniffing an NBA final with whoever they draft this year.