SimonOnSports

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 t...

So it's officially done the Celtics have finalized their tank job after their loss on friday night to the Milwaukee Bucks to clinch the 2nd worst record in the NBA. And Ryan Gomes let the not so secret tanking scheme out of the bag: "I probably (would have played), but since we were in the hunt for a high draft pick, of course things are different," Gomes said. "I understand that. Hopefully things get better. Now that we clinched at least having the second-most balls in the lottery, the last three games we'll see what happens. We'll see if we can go out and finish some games." Quote from Deadspin He's not saying anything anyone didn't know already. The Celtics started the tank job almost a full month ago when Doc blatantly threw a game against the Bobcats. And then a few weeks ago when Big Al and Pierce sat for the 'season'. In actuality Jefferson came back yesterday after they clinched the 2nd worst record. And most laughable of all giv...

So I'm listening to Mike and Mike in the morning on my way into work and the mention the fact that the Celtics have lost 15 in a row and that it is to their benefit to lose as many games as possible down the stretch to increase their odds of landing either Durant or Oden, very true. Then Greeny went off and said this is a disgrace and that the NBA should reward teams for winning and not losing and thus he would implement a rule that would give the best team that missed the playoffs the #1 pick. Personally I think this would quite possibly the dumbest rule change in sports history. Heres why... Shifting the Benefits of Losing Contemplate this for a second, would you as a fan or GM of the Minnesota Timberwolves, currently 8th in the West, would you rather make the playoffs and get crushed by the Mavericks in the first round or would you rather tank a few games at the end of the season to match up Kevin Garnett with the superstar he's always needed, Durant or Oden. All your plan d...