{"id":1485453,"date":"2022-02-24T21:46:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T02:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1485453"},"modified":"2022-02-24T21:46:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T02:46:18","slug":"zion-williamson-situation-means-we-need-to-talk-about-the-rookie-contract-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/zion-williamson-situation-means-we-need-to-talk-about-the-rookie-contract-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Zion Williamson Situation Means We Need to Talk About the Rookie Contract Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
In the early days of the NBA, the concept of a \u201crookie contract\u201d was a foreign one. Several legal challenges and collective bargaining sessions, we\u2019re deep into the era of the rookie scale contract. In many ways, the change is suitable for NBA players<\/a>. But as we\u2019re seeing with the increasingly dysfunctional Zion Williamson<\/a> situation in New Orleans, the current system isn\u2019t without flaws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But to understand today\u2019s problems, it\u2019s essential to grasp how we got here. We\u2019ve advanced far beyond the previous setup, even with the warts that pockmark the modern rookie scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It beats pure chaos.<\/p>\n\n\n\nRookie contracts before the rookie scale<\/h2>\n\n\n\n