I think my point was missed. I don't think the league cares about the Jazz. It isn't really even about the Jazz. The Jazz are expendable, which is why they can be the sacrificial pawn to move a necessary process further along. I mentioned this a week or two ago that it was cool for retired players to do a sign-and-trade to be salary ballast (Keith Van Horn for Dallas, Aaron McKie for the Lakers), but when the Jazz get involved trying to use retired Greg Ostertag, it gets nixed. When the league makes a "big push" to prevent flopping, you get guys like Reggie Evans being fined. I had said that we'd be the perfect team to make an example of. Quite literally the next day we got fined. Blackballing Ainge and Hardy isn't really the "punishment" I'm talking about. I'm saying to watch if any other team gets fined this year, then see if any of said fined teams are in the top 4. That's what I'm saying. That's the punishment that matter. And it's the punishment that fixes things.
Nobody cares about Ainge and Hardy.
