J. Kyle Mann

They want the systems that have been in place for years and years.

And so if you really want to fix this stuff, abolish the draft.

Like that's how you do it.

You shift it into a different form of some like...

I'm like, you know, Justin, you were talking about we all have our kind of like designated fixes that we like to propose.

For me, it's if you want to have like a rookie salary slot in which the exact number you can offer to a rookie or combination of rookies is dependent on how bad your record was, fine.

But basically turn it into a rookie free agency period instead, I think solves a lot of the problems.

Couldn't, that could not work.

It just couldn't.

Well, nothing will work.

But ultimately, something like here, there's a couple of different problems.

The draft itself is not an interesting product.

It is fundamentally broken.

There is no power in it.

Well, that's not your fault.

You're just playing in the system that's been handed to you.

But it tells us nothing about who players are.

They have no power or agency in it whatsoever other than Kobe Bryant style saying, you better not take me, Charlotte Hornets.

That's really the only way that they can flex at all.

And so you have this system where the teams have all the power and they will never, ever, ever vote to give that up.