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Is the NBA penalizing teams for drafting well?
Is the NBA penalizing teams for drafting well?

Yahoo

time26-06-2025

  • Business
  • Yahoo

Is the NBA penalizing teams for drafting well?

Is the NBA penalizing teams for drafting well? Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Vincent Goodwill and Jared Greenberg discuss if the NBA's Second Apron is penalizing teams like the Boston Celtics for building through the draft. Hear the full conversation on 'Good Word with Goodwill' and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen. View more Video Transcript There feels something unsettling to me that a team that had built itself the right way, that we tell teams, you make smart trades, you nail your draft picks, you're opportunistic in free agency and in the trade market, and you find yourself a year ago, winning a championship rather easily, you didn't cheat your way to a title. Advertisement And then you were lined up this year before the injuries you positioned yourself to be good enough to be good again, year after year after year. year and because of the rules of the 2nd apron, because of the legislative mediocrity of this NBA, excellence is now being legislated out and I don't like it. Greatness is being reprimanded. I think the NBA miscalculated this. This is the biggest failure of the CBA and I've spoken to team executives about this. I've spoken to league executives about this, and it boggles my mind that the one provision that the owners and players did not put into the CBA. Is rewarding teams and taking care of teams who draft well. Advertisement We should absolutely be penalizing teams who are simply going out there and trying to trade their way or sign their way to a championship. The whole point of this CBA was to prevent the Donald Sterlings and the Jim Dolans of the world from coming in. And spending freely without getting penalized, not only financially, but prohibitively with trades and and draft picks and future signings and all this stuff. All that, I'm fine. But I wish there would have been some sort of provision, and I have ideas on how they could have done it. And it could have been done a million ways. You should not be penalized for guys that you draft or you acquire on draft night, grow organically, and then have to pay. Advertisement Like, that's what your fan base wants. That's what the NBA should want. Now, if you want to tell me you acquired a guy 4 years into him playing in the NBA or you're telling me a superstar demands his way out, yeah, I don't think those guys and those teams should be rewarded, but I think you should not be penalized. For growing a roster, and, and think about it, you know, two of the guys that were acquired by trade, Pozingas and, and Holliday, they, they, they're the guys that are out. Brown and Tatum are still there. Pritchard and Hauser are still there. I, I'm not shutting the door on, on, on, on Brad Stevens yet. Advertisement I don't think this is a full-on tank. I don't think that they're waving the white. It's, it's not a tank, it's a gap. I don't think it's a gap year yet. Now, if they trade Jalen Brown, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll wave the white flag on you.

Why the Thunder could be set for decade-long run
Why the Thunder could be set for decade-long run

Yahoo

time07-06-2025

  • Sport
  • Yahoo

Why the Thunder could be set for decade-long run

Why the Thunder could be set for decade-long run | Good Word with Goodwill Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Vincent Goodwill is joined by David Aldridge of The Athletic to discuss how Oklahoma City's collection of young talent and a pile of draft picks could make this a team on the verge of a long running dynasty in the NBA. Hear the full conversation on 'Good Word with Goodwill' and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen. View more Video Transcript I'm excited about these files. Advertisement I'm excited about OKC. I like good teams. I like great teams, you know, um, if they are a budding dynasty, good for them. I don't know of a team in recent history that is set up as well as OKC because it's not just that they have a great young team and a, and a superstar MVP on their roster. It's that they have SGA and they have homegren, and they have Williams, and they have Harenstein, and they have Caruso, and they still have 8 billion draft picks, 8 billion first round picks the next 5 years, even if the roster does become expensive in the next few years, even if they do have to spend a lot of money to keep homegrown and to keep Jaylen Williams and to keep SGA. Advertisement They can always get rid of any of those players at any time because they've got multiple firsts that they can attach to any one of those players' contracts to send them on their way and get new players in to replace them. That's the point. They will never be lacking for incoming talent the next half decade. Name a player other than SGA who I think is the guy they will not trade under any circumstances. And I don't think they would trade homegrown under any circumstances. I could be true, but I think those are the two, those are the two that I think they go, we can't, we're, those are the two we're keeping. Advertisement And that's why OKC's runway could be incredibly long. It could be close to a decade long of them being If not in the finals every year, a contending team year after year after year after year because they have the ability to replenish their team any time they want, you know. And, and since they have rarely made mistakes in terms of personnel, I, I would bet on them not making mistakes when it comes to making trades. And they have a big 3 when we thought big 3s were dead. That's why the, that's why the league should be scared to scared to death out of this team.

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