79. "Specific to this Zion/New Orleans situation" In response to In response to 77
perhaps the Pelicans front office should have traded their number one draft pick slot down? That's assuming they could have sniffed out any doubts of Zion wanting to stick around past his rookie extension courtesy of an interview.
I'm assuming of course you're asking for a long term and more abstract solution to this problem. Don't know if I have an answer short of penalizing players financially that are obviously alienating themselves from their teams by docking their pay. Short of that, I don't know what else their is to motivate a rookie to want to stay with the team that drafted them.
"Sean sparks like John Starks, nah, Sean ball like John Wall" - Rest In Power Forever Sean Price.