Klomp wrote:The press conference was minutes after he was selected. They are all farces. The NBA locks in the draft order earlier in the day, meaning any transactions involving picks don’t get made official until after the draft is completed. The team published the Miller acquisition press release at 12:43 am.
I just don't know they can't make it "unofficial" and treat it as a done deal and t hen officially make it a thing after the fact. This is an entertainment product after all. It makes sense to me to just act like its a done deal, we all know about it, and treat it as such as soon as its announced. If something does fall through after, which is rare, they can just say well the deal fell through and walk it back. That's what they would have to do now anyway, they inform everyone a deal was made so whats the point of acting like it hasn't been made?
Just say two teams agreed to a trade, and treat it as such as soon as its announced. GM's should be able to talk, we should be able to ask questions, etc. It should all be under the knowledge that on a rare occasion, the deal could fall apart.
Right now in the business world, Microsoft is trying to acquire Activision. They are meeting opposition and it may not happen. For over a year they have been talking about their plans for Activision games and openly talking about some things they will do when the acquisition goes through. It might not even happen but they are still able to talk a lot about it, that's a 70 billion transaction and the NBA wants to pull this silly stuff with draft day trades.
It just seems incredibly stupid to me. I know they must have some really good reasons but I really want them to examine if those reasons are good enough to make it this silly. Fans want to be excited and they want to get discussion going right away, why tie GM's and the press hands behind their backs?
When luck shuts the door skill comes in through the window.
