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The NBA is going to fail, im sorry #nba Yup, the NBA has a problem, Michael Jordan was right, and it’s the NBA’s fault, because if this doesn’t change…the league is doomed even with this new in season tournament, but I’m going to outline the problem and how the league has to fix it DeMar and PG are heated, because the rules have changed. Because of new contracts and agreements, a lot of money is almost being handed out, a player now has to be intrinsically motivated soly by being the best and winning. t’s why Zion can sit, not be so involved with his teammates, and be unaffected because he got a bag. Heck Ja already got his big contract and then got caught AGAIN showing a gun on IG live, and then he claimed it was... a toy? Huh? Zion Williamson has been exposed for engaging in multiple relationships that were transactional. Now these aren’t some players at the end of the bench, no, the NBA has spent hundreds of millions of dollars betting that these guys are the future of the league and their consequences were some twitter beef and an 8 game suspension, then 25 game suspension for a repeated offense? Damian Lillard’s agent is calling teams to specifically warn them against trading for Dame other than the Heat. Dame, the one guy that stood for loyalty, that threw shade over the years on other players teaming up, told Paul George to keep switching teams…you boys is chumps” And he requested a trade specifically to the Heat, one year after signing an extension. But he’s not the first star to do that. And that’s issue #1: Contracts are meaningless. KD asked for a trade and wanted to ditch Brooklyn before his contract expired…  and Kyrie was seemingly ready to bounce, too. But what KD did was, in a way, completely and UTTERLY unprecedented. And maybe if it was just Kevin Durant, alright people let’s do this one last time, his name is Ben Simmons, another star who demanded a trade And we could go down a list, James Harden, Kawhi Leonard, Anthony Davis, Paul George all mainly starting with LeBron James and the decision in 2010. Contracts don’t mean anything for the upper tier stars either who can force their way out. The last straw was Dame. That mindset trickles down to the rest of the league, but not in the way you might think. We all hear lead by example right? Well that’s what leadership is doing. What are other more average players doing? Now I don’t want to agree with Gilbert Arenas just because he’s Arenas, but several players have confirmed with Patrick Beverley is saying and that’s issue #2, passion might just be at an all time low. That doesn’t mean skill is because a player can be really good without necessarily being passionate about the game, but what’s lost in all that is a competitive edge, where the priority is winning. The same goes with the new in season tournament. The big new thing the NBA is going to promote to counter the dipping ratings. As I’ve shown in the past, this era viewership is much lower than several other eras. But again, what’s the incentive for players to play? A prize pool? Here’s why that’s sort of stupid. Which leads to issue #3: punishment and is related to a solution talked about later, but we need to understand how the league fell into this mess in the first place. **** Remember when NBA players went into the stands to throw hands with fans? David Stern was the same commissioner who suspended Ron Artest for the remainder of the 2004-05 season -- which ended up being 86 games – including 13 playoff games for his role in the infamous Malice at The Palace. He was strict on issues that affected how marketable the NBA was. When Melo was running with some shady people in Baltimore back in 2006, David Stern told him that he was making an example out of him, and said “Do you want to be in the streets, or do you want to be in the NBA? You’re f-—g with a corporation now”. So he cracked down hard on things like dress codes, player behavior on the court, and the infamous Melo "Stop Snitching" video. So the solution is sort of simple and the NBA has set it up perfectly with the new voting but the NBA missed it by not including it in the new CBA agreement. Force players to honor their contracts. If they sign any max extension, they can’t demand a trade for the first 2 years or they lose 50% of their contract. Stop giving every one a max contract. I understand that we have All-NBA selections to increase contract amounts, but reserve that right for the players who make 1st team All-NBA and because now voting is positionless and requires 65 games, playing more is incentivized with contractual increases. And most importantly, have the commissioner step in so we don’t get a Zion-Ja situation. Have actual punishments, not tip toeing around the truth, because tiptoing around is what’s gotten us in this mess.