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I've been saying for a few years now that 2 things that hurt today's NBA is restricted free agency & the lottery forcing teams to build on an accelerated clock in case a teams lucks into a franchise changing guy. Only effective way to build a real team thru the draft is to tank.
How so?
A team is almost guaranteed to have that guy for 7 years, nobody turns down that first deal.
Well just in case you haven't been paying attention the past 15 years or so almost every small market or perennially bad team has lost their franchise guy by the time they were done with their 2nd contract. All of those teams were forced to start spending to do right by their guy and while some of the teams became title contenders almost all of them never built anything lasting and became immediately mediocre. While you're right that no guy turns down RFA it's also forcing guys to stay with bad franchises and the cycle continues until the franchise guy leaves in UFA or forces his way out thru trade.
I've said this plenty of times, a lot of these teams are on the clock with their guys.
OKC is probably gonna lose Westbrook
Washington will probably lose John Wall
Sacramento will probably be forced to move Boogie unless he leaves in a few years.
New Orleans will lose Anthony Davis
Indiana at some point will probably have to move Paul George
It's going to keep happening.