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Message: [QUOTE="Ward, post: 1754808, member: 1958"] Yea, I agree and you hear that all the time in free agency that so and so wants to go to a bigger market when they're a free agent. Then Durant comes out and says he's been able to get plenty of endorsements and be a star playing in OKC. I was saying more so how big corporations I don't think can control if Tim Duncan gets drafted by the Spurs, or Wiggins and Towns both go to Minnesota, Durant to OKC. Then once they're there it's set up that their initial team can compensate them much more than they would get from other teams, or the Lakers and Knicks don't have the salary cap space to even enter the bidding discussion. Not sure how this will change with the wild west we'll see in the coming free agency periods though. If guys in college were able to pick which pro team they signed with instead of the draft set up you absolutely would see them try to steer the best young players to the bigger markets. [/QUOTE]