Smart man. This type of attitude should be encouraged.
Players should not have their own careers stymied by a team. Path your own life.
Interestingly enough this is the approach they use in Europe with their soccer leagues. There is no draft, any rookie can sign with any team and can go to whoever team gives them the most money or who they feel they have the best chance of success with. In addition there is no salary cap so teams like Manchester City, Real Madrid and Paris St Germain can offer hundreds of millions for a player because they have rich owners. It's ironic that Europe with its so called social democracies have much less restraints on trade on players than the American sports leagues in the so-called heart of capitalism.
Of course, the negative is that in each league there's only 2 or 3 competitive teams any given year and it's the ones with the richest owners because they always have the best players and the best rookies. The other teams are just there to make up the numbers.
That sounds absolutely awful. Not all that different from the MLB in terms of spending, but at least they hold a draft. I am a Red Sox fan, but even I acknowledge the advantages they've had on other teams through the years. I was pretty bummed when the Dodgers beat the Rays in the WS this year. Like, of course the Dodgers are perennial contenders - they spend so much money.
Of course some of this occurs in the NBA with a team like the Lakers having a major FA (or trade, in the case of AD and Kobe) advantage over teams like the T-Wolves or Grizzlies.
As this relates to Wiseman - usually this type of thing would get me a little mad at the player, but going #1 and then sitting behind Towns for years would be pretty terrible for his career. And neither one of them really has any business playing PF full-time.
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