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Posted 05/27/2007 at 10:26 PM
David Stern's and the National Basketball Association stock has had a rough go of late. First, Stern's ruling which virutally took the Phoenix Suns out of the playoffs when he suspended two Suns in a trade off for a Spurs bench veteran. (We all know the story) Well, then the NBA holds it's bogus draft selection order show, where none of the three worst teams (by record) received a top three pick. The Boston Celtics got what they deserved because they laid down during the final weeks of the season, but Milwaukee and Memphis also got the shaft as they didn't get any of the top three selections. We know its a weighted lottery, but still, the bottom three teams shouldn't have to make a fifth or sixth selection. Simply, allow the bottom three to be in their own lottery so that none of them drop lower than that third pick. So now, what the NBA has, is a playoff where the leagues top two teams are gone before the conference finals and the three worst teams won't make a draft selection until the top three players are gone.
They worst part of all this for the NBA is that two fresh exciting players like Oden and Durant will be lost in the Pacific northwest, its not that these teams are not important, it's just that the league is hurting with TV ratings and these two needed to be where they would be seen. Brandon Roy won the Rookie of the Year and most of America doesn't even know for which team he plays. Hey, I follow the NBA as closely as anybody and I barely remember seeing Roy play. The east coast exposure carries the league like it or not!
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