Message to Adam Silver: If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It

Teams Should Be Rewarded for Building a Solid Foundation

The second problem with Silver’s line of thinking is that it essentially says that if a team drafts well, they should not be rewarded with the most talented free agents and players should be swayed to go to teams that did not do as good of a job drafting and building a sustainable core for a franchise.

For example, the Warriors were a home-grown product before Durant signed. Curry, Klay Thompson, and Draymond Green were all great draft picks, who other teams passed on, and turned out to be the perfect fit.

If Silver had his way, Durant would not have been able to join up with an already great team, even though it made the most sense from the standpoint of wanting to get a ring and be a part of a model for success.

Meanwhile, the Oklahoma City Thunder, who made one questionable trade after another, getting rid of James Harden and Reggie Jackson, would be “the preferred” destination for the league, in the interest of “fairness.”

Even the Cleveland Cavaliers, who are a super team in their own right and did not draft well for much of the history of the franchise, still had a core in place with Kyrie Irving, Tristan Thompson, and Andrew Wiggins (who turned into Kevin Love) so they did not just assemble the team by buying the most expensive free agents.

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