re: Michael Wilbon tells Jurgy to get out of USA

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It's absurd. Look at quotes from at least 4 or 5 nba teams from before the season. They may couch it in phrases like "rebuilding mode" but the management and coaching staffs of those teams basically admit there's no way their winning an nba title

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True. Kind of. But coaches and execs for an NBA team are far less likely to come out and say they are tanking a season and will usually skirt around the subject or deny it entirely.

It's pretty common you'll see a European manager come out and "concede the title" or something similar, well before his team is out of the conversation . It always kinda struck me as funny and different from the American sports I grew up watching.