asdlkm wrote:HotelVitale wrote:Bk68 wrote:That's a good point
Interesting thing to think about but a) those teams have a very small chance of landing the #1 pick (14%) with new lotto odds and b) I'd guess that it's not actually $75m he'd be losing in marketing etc, nor is there a way to make that a whole lot better.
For one Charlotte is a moderate sized and not small market, and when you consider it's the team for all of central NC it's a pretty good-sized one. It's quite a bit bigger than Cleveland, for example, and we saw how Lebron was able to be a global icon while playing on the Cavs as a younger player. If you don't think Flagg's going to be at that level--or even a step or two below--then the amount of $ he's picking up from endorsements etc doesn't seem like it'll matter that much. Don't think being a pretty good player in Charlotte vs being a pretty good player in say Dallas (a top-5 market) is going to make a gigantic difference in $.
If you're saying that he'd lost a lot of $ and prestige because teams like CHA are pretty incompetently run and unlikely to build big time winning teams (or at least relevant ones) around him, that's a decent point. But we've also seen lots of team's FO gets switched up and the team getting better or worse, especially when they have some talent and need to get competent. Don't want to trap them into sucking because they have in the past.
Also if he stays in another year he's still looking at kinda blah teams+markets like NOLA, Charlotte, Portland, etc having the best chances of landing him again. No way for him to get himself to a NY or LA.
He's not LeBron. The comparison would be someone like Tatum. How much more money has Tatum made in endorsements by being on a perennial contender vs if he was in Charlotte surrounded by junk? Obviously being in a premier market helps, which isn't likely for Flagg regardless of when he comes out, but there is real value in being on competitive teams in playoff spotlight. With that said, who knows if the options will be any better next year. So likely he'll still come out.
Yeah him getting to a contender is obviously not a real option. Very very few examples of that ever happening, rare enough that Tatum is irrelevant as a comp.
I also addressed most of the real questions in the last post. Being drafted by say Washington doesn’t mean he’s doomed to be in a suck team forever, and if he’s as good as say Tatum does it matter $75m worth if he plays for like Toronto (big market bad team) or Portland (small market bad team).
