Dick Vitale a Confirmed Moron: Backs the Greeny Rule

Nothing is bothering me lately more than this idiotic hammering home on the Mike and Mike show of their Greeny Rule and why you should reward winning. Well yesterday Dick Vitale, now a confirmed moron, wrote a column backing the rule and came on Mike and Mike to voice his opinion of switching around the lottery order. Now I've already hammered it home why I think the Greeny Rule is moronic, and why I think tanking gives us a fun extra storyline at the end of the year but I have another axe to grind with these clowns.

The keep on bringing up the point that these bad teams should be forced to go out in free agency and bring in players to improve their teams and that losing shouldn't reward them with the best chance of bringing in the next superstar. The problem with that whole philosophy is that teams almost never win without massive success in the draft. How many big time superstar free agents have their been in the past few seasons? How many teams ever win because of their free agent signings? Basically Nash has been the only legitimate free agent signing in the past 4 or 5 years, and he went to a team with Marion and Amare, not a team that stunk.

Past 21 NBA Champions The MVP

2006 Miami Heat - Dwayne Wade
2005 San Antonio Spurs - Tim Duncan
2004 Detroit Pistons - Chauncey Billups*
2003 San Antonio Spurs - Tim Duncan
2002 LA Lakers - Shaq*
2001 LA Lakers - Shaq*
2000 LA Lakers - Shaq*
1999 San Antonio Spurs - Tim Duncan
1998 Chicago Bulls - Michael Jordan
1997 Chicago Bulls - Michael Jordan
1996 Chicago Bulls - Michael Jordan
1995 Houston Rockets - Hakeem Olajuwan
1994 Houston Rockets - Hakeem Olajuwan
1993 Chicago Bulls - Michael Jordan
1992 Chicago Bulls - Michael Jordan
1991 Chicago Bulls - Michael Jordan
1990 Detroit Pistons - Isiah Thomas
1989 Detroit Pistons - Joe Dumars
1988 LA Lakers - James Worthy
1987 LA Lakers - Magic Johnson
1986 Boston Celtics - Larry Bird

4 of the past 21 champions in the NBA have won with a free agent as their most important player. 3 of which were Shaq on the Lakers. So in actuality only two franchises have won an NBA title in over 20 years because of a key free agent signing, it doesn't happen. The Pistons with all their signings and trades are the absolute exception to the rule, and their is always one exception to the rule. If you change the rules and bury a franchise like the Grizzlies into the ground they will never ever get out of it, and the Grizzlies aren't tanking (much) they just completely suck. You're asking the Grizzlies and other miserable teams to be the exception rather then giving them the real path to success, and it just won't happen.

Numbers On Steroids: Bret Boone

Numbers on Steroids is a look at baseball players during the 90s to see if anything screams out at you. Mr. Boone was once the best power hitting second baseman in the league. How questionable was his success? Averages Say: Why the extra plateu in his mid 30s? At Bats Per Home Run Says: Lowest at Bats Per Home Runs at 37? Hmm.... Explaining It Away Yeak, this one is tough. Umm, late bloomer? He showed potential power early in his career and he just liked playing in Seattle a lot more than everywhere else? And umm, his career was kind of like a running backs in that it just all of a sudden fell off the map? Any of these convincing you? The Verdict Guy never hits more than 24 home runs in a season and then in his age 32 season he hits 37? And in SafeCo a pitchers park to boot? And he follows that up with 24, 35, 24 homer years still at SafeCo? And then he completely falls off the map in 2005 never to be heard from again? We've got a Screamer... Man Get Big Muscles In 30s. Hm...

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SsG said…

I think you make Valid points, However I feel like the players that made your list that changed the course of their teams trajectory are all future or current Hall of Fame'ers. I believe to make the league more competitive, as well as increase parity, the "Greeny" rule would definitely be beneficial. If we use this year as an example, Anthony Davis who is the consensus #1 Pick would definitely make a team like the suns, jazz, or Utah more of a playoff team than the Bobcats. The teams recently that have benefited from a #1 pick, such as the Bulls with Derrick Rose, had a legitimate roster around them at the time. A team that is just a few pieces away from the next level should get those pieces and I feel the whole level of the league will raise. Also it puts ow-nus on teams to learn to become consistent winners and consistently competitive rather than banking on a draft pick to boost sales, hope, and excitement around a franchise.

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I feel like you make Valid Points, however I feel that to make the league more competitive, as well as increase parity in the league the "greeny" rule would be very beneficial. The players that you listed that changed the trajectory of their franchises are future or current hall of famer's. Most #1 draft picks are not those type of players. Most #1 draft picks, if sent to a poorly run team, which most teams that constantly stay noncompetitive usually are, are wasted, there are few teams that know how to draft and develop a team through the draft, ie OKC, and the Spurs. Take for example this year, Anthony Davis, who is the consensus #1 Pick, will more likely make a team like the Suns, Rockets, or Jazz a playoff team than the Bobcats. Right away, another team becomes a threat to the established teams that seem to find themselves always at the top like the Lakers, Celtics, Spurs, and so on. Nobody is going to be scared about the Bobcats next year, even if they received the top 3 picks. By giving a Solid player to an already decent team, the league becomes better. Also it puts pressure on poorly run organizations, who seem to always find themselves in the lottery, to figure out how to become better run, rather than Banking on a Draft pick to bring excitement, hope, and increase in sales to their organizations. There are always going to be exceptions, and flaws, but I feel like the "greeny" rule will improve the league, and make every game more competitive and worthwhile.

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