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2010-07-27 5:43PM / 標準BLOG / 會員可以看
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if you were a terrible basketball team and couldn't sell any tickets and were going into full on "rebuilding" mode ... why not put together an "all washed up" team of former stars and create some (possibly negative) buzz around that? you could do it at the same time as you were rebuilding.

for instance, maybe a team like cleveland could go out and get tracy mcgrady, allen iverson, stephon marbury, and keep shaq. ideally, sign them all for at or close to the minimum amounts. and start all of them and have the other guys come off the bench. since they are all worse physically than they were at their prime, they probably wouldn't be able to do more than 20 minutes per night. so there'd still be plenty of time left for the bench players (which means the younger players on the team would still get significant minutes to get better).

yes, this team would probably be horrible. but, because your "starters" would all be playing for at or near the minimum, your team payroll would be very low. and, there might be a strong curiosity factor where people might want to buy tickets just to see these guys play (or fail). so potentially this idea could be pretty profitable for an otherwise terrible team that would have lost a lot money.

and i think this idea only really works if you get lots of them on one team and have them start. if you just got one of them and sat them on the bench the whole time, no one would care. but put them all on one team as starters, ... that would be interesting enough that i think people would pay to see how (badly) they'd do.

and who knows? from pride alone, i bet these guys would work pretty hard to show that they weren't washed up. they probably wouldn't be boston celtics level, but they also might not be the worst team in the league either.

finally, assuming this team ends up losing a ton of games, they'd have a good draft pick the following year. so, if my idea works, they'd end up being a lot more profitable than they would otherwise, their young players would still get a lot of minutes to get better, and they'd be bad enough to get a good draft pick the following year.

if you're a rebuilding team, why wouldn't you do this? (the biggest problem i see with this, assuming a team wanted to do it, is that the stars themselves might not join such a situation since they know they'd basically be a "freakshow"). still, it'd be cool if it could happen.

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warhod
留言於2010-08-10 3:44PM [举报]

I think the reason why these washed up allstars aren't playing anymore is because of their pride. Not many of them are willing to admit that they're passed their prime and play a new role. You have David Robinson, Karl Malone who knew how to shift their roles but guys like AI and Shaq have way too much pride so they play late in basketball career and not willing to accept a reduced role. If they knew that they're gonna start on a team together, why would they sign the minimum for what they make way less back in their prime? Only reason they'll sign for less is a chance to win a championship. So having a team of 4-5 washed up guys who all would be starting is damn near impossible in the NBA world. But then again, I'd rather see them in the Legends team in NBA2K11 or some charity games.
Anton Wong
留言於2010-07-27 10:14PM [举报]

I can think of a few similar real life examples in movies.. music..
Flagday
留言於2010-07-27 7:57PM [举报]

Only problem is that even washed-up players don't like to lose. Or live in Cleveland. haha Sounds kinda like these guys would be like 'the expendables.' Let's see how that works.

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