Curious Hair wrote:
ZephMarshack wrote:
I dunno, I get it's fun and easy to mock the players' feels argument (though to be fair Arnovitz has been anti-draft for ages and is just using a new angle to continue to push that position), but these doomsday scenarios about poor wittle small market teams also ain't exactly pulling on my heartstrings and don't seem especially realistic to me either.
It'd be one thing if it were like the other leagues where there are a handful of markets that players are decidedly unenthusiastic about (Montreal, Winnipeg, Buffalo in both sports) but NBA players seem to bitch about everywhere that isn't Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, or Miami. What do you do with that.
I feel like the NBA media tries to push guys to glamour teams and markets a whole lot more than the players themselves are doing so.
For this offseason, you can count Davis to LA for your point, but Kawhi and Kyrie have hometown connections if they end up in LA and NY, and even in those cases they appear likely to end up at the far less prestigious team in those respective cities. And note that the Lakers had to trade for Davis because despite whatever appeal the market had, it looked like they were going to draw dead in free agency for a second straight year (with Paul George choosing OKC over LA last year).
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