Trade to tank?

CubsFaninMN

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I keep hearing sportswriters urging the Bulls to trade off pretty much every player of perceived value for draft picks, and to ensure they finish way down to get a higher pick of their own.

Regardless of who may or may not be abailable in the draft, trading to tank is massively unfair to the fan base, I think. How is this for a suggestion -- if you want a high draft pick, instead of trading in order to intentionally tank your remaining season, just declare your desire to tank, and the league will forfeit the remainder of your schedule to your planned opponents.

It would be more fair to the fan base than purposely putting a losing team on tbe court, and would force the ownership that wants to tank to forego their gate receipts for the remainder of the season, thus providing an economic disincentive for screwing the fan base.

I'd think this would provide some type of incentive for teams to stop obviously trying to tank...
 

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