Silver: \u201cI think there’s a bit of a perfect storm this year. You have a perception of a very deep draft class, which it appears to be, great players coming into the league. And then even fans in particular cities and even media in those cities to a certain degree were rooting for their teams to tank and saying, \u2018how well can your team be managed if you’re sort of just in the middle? You either gotta be great or you gotta let yourself get bad.\u2019 And I think we had to respond not just to the narrative, but to a misalignment of incentives.\u201d<\/p>\n
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