[Senator Clay Davis]

Yes, the Sixers model works. The Raps need to destroy their roster at an absolutely unprecedented level in any sport ever to get there. It cannot happen next year, or probably even the year after that. They have to accept horrible trades to get into position to tank. You act as if it's really easy for them, they're just gonna choose not to do it. I basically guarantee you Masai would have preferred to gut the roster and keep Casey. But he can't, it's just not realistically possible. So they gotta hope they can be the Capitals or Mavericks, a roster seemingly past best before that had a run.

Also, the Spurs and Warriors have a combined one player they drafted in the top 10, and look at them, the model franchises in the sport. Are you gonna say they never properly built a team? Houston hasn't picked in the lottery in years. Tanking isn't the only way, it's the easiest way, but not for the Raps in the current situation. Honestly if to you the only way is to tank, the Raps are at least three years away from starting that process.