Philadelphia 76ers’ managing partner Josh Harris said on Monday that he feels good about the season despite a slow start.
"We're all in on the season, I think we have a lot of talent and we're together as an organization.. this is our year," Harris added."Games four through 82 await us."showcased that turnaround last season.As far as the ongoing tanking issue that the NBA continues to deal with, Harris says, an idea the league's commissioner Adam Silver put down last week, is not a feasible option.
"I don't think it [relegation] necessarily makes sense," Harris said."The NBA is doing great, it's growing, it's very competitive, different teams win at different times ... I think there are better ways to do it." The statement comes as Silver addressed a solution the league could enforce to ensure the worst-performing teams are incentivized to win. He said that would require relegation, demoting the worst one or two teams to the G League while boosting the best couple of teams from the G League to the NBA.
He went on to say that relegation would be “destabilizing” to the NBA and “disrupt our business model” but “even if you took two teams up from the G League, they wouldn't be equipped to compete in the NBA."