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Stars from small markets didn’t leave their teams to join a powerhouse back in the day. Had Reggie Miller for example played in this era, he’d have probably left after his second contract to join a contender a team already stacked, for example Durant leaving OKC to play with GS that had already won 72 games that season. Things like that never happened back in the 80’s or 90’s. Back then the very best stars stayed home because they wanted to beat other stars and win with the team they started with. Now stars are teaming up because they want to win a title the easy way and are so afraid of retiring with out a title on their resume. It’s always better for a league when great teams are built organically then players leaving teams high and dry forcing them to start over. So instead of having 8-9 teams with a shot you have only 3-4 teams that have a shot.
 
NUMBERICA said:
Everything we try to do to make this general idea work involves a lot of clarifications on the margins that complicate this. So I'm softening on the idea of just taking the guardrails off.

What I'm referring to is that I already traded Lillard for a pick (as I believe you were also involved in a similar transaction), which probably would supplant that rule. Maybe we could just grandfather them?

Again, what I propose is that players selected with a poster's first five picks (hereafter referred to as "first-half pick") be subject to its own special trade rules, but not a person's 6-10 picks ("second-half pick"). What this would mean is if I wanted to trade a first-half pick drafted in the 2010's, I could only trade it for another first-half pick drafted in the 2010's of someone else's. This restriction would not apply to second-half picks which are open season as long as they are for other second-half picks.

In your case IIRC, that would mean you could trade Jason Kidd for any other second-half pick or combination of picks, but that would not apply to KD, Russell, Pippen, Klay, or Ray Allen (though they could still be traded for players of the same era).
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All of the deals done so far have been in accordance with that though.
 
White Chocolate said:
You idiot it’s not any different lmao. Only way it’s different is if they drafted a super team.
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Players didn’t have the power back then as they do now. Players run the league now more than they ever have in the past, leaving teams high and dry.

It’s cute though how you’re trying to win this argument, just stop, there’s no way that will happen.
 
White Chocolate said:
You idiot it’s not any different lmao. Only way it’s different is if they drafted a super team.
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Players didn’t have the power back then as they do now. Players run the league now more than they ever have in the past, leaving teams high and dry.

It’s cute though how you’re trying to win this argument, just stop, there’s no way that will happen.
 
White Chocolate said:
You idiot it’s not any different lmao. Only way it’s different is if they drafted a super team.
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Players didn’t have the power back then as they do now. Players run the league now more than they ever have in the past, leaving teams high and dry.

It’s cute though how you’re trying to win this argument, just stop, there’s no way that will happen.
 
Thee Idiotic Minivan K said:
Players didn’t have the power back then as they do now. Players run the league now more than they ever have in the past, leaving teams high and dry.

It’s cute though how you’re trying to win this argument, just stop, there’s no way that will happen.
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Everyone is laughing at you. You’re the typical old man who thinks about the good old days that weren’t even that good. You make **** up to fit your argument and romanticize the past. It’s so typical it’s actually funny that you are exactly like that.
 
Kareem literally forced his way out of Milwaukee and wanted to go to Knicks or Lakers. Guess what he ended up going to the Lakers.

So weird. I could of sworn Thee said stars from small markets didn’t leave their teams to join a powerhouse back in the day.
 
New idea:

We open up trading across all eras (maintaining the original first-five pick era rule, of course), but at the end of the draft you still have to have at least one player from every era (this draft is deep enough for that to have ramifications)? I'd like a rule that is relatively simple, and at this point, there just isn't one that clarifies/answers this question. Sufficient?

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