[Vardon] League official: if Silver and his advisers decided the only way to stop tanking, and protect paying customers from forking over money to watch their teams lose on purpose, was to stop the draft altogether and turn rookies into free agents, it would get serious consideration.
There were numerous meetings among league officials this week to discuss tanking remedies, and, of the approximately 10 solutions discussed, the outright abolition of the rookie draft was not among them, one of those officials said.
Adam Silver:
“When any economist comes and looks at our system, they always point out that we have the incentives backwards,” Silver said. “It’s not what the fans want at the end of the day.”