In the NBA, there are currently only “19 players on the 2016-17 squad, in addition to the Big Three once you account for the various folks who –through fine print measures in the league’s labor pact – that have the privilege of saying they can’t be traded …show more content…
Owners of NFL teams have “the option to trade with any other franchise unless the player has enough power to put stipulation in their personal contract” (Witt, 2017, NFL Trading Rules). All college athletes when getting drafted into the NFL have no say as to what team pics them. A college football athlete has one of two options. Either they can play for the team that picks them or they don’t play at all. This too shows how not even in the sport of basketball but any sport that there is an ongoing plantation metaphor that still exists.
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Stein, M. (2017, January 28). The 2016-17 NBA All-No-Trade Team. Retrieved October 03, 2017, from http://www.espn.com/blog/marc-stein/post/_/id/4937/the-2016-17-nba-all-no-trade-team
Witt, P. NFL Trading Rules. NFL Trading Rules | Healthfully. Retrieved October 3, 2017, from https://healthfully.com/nfl-trading-rules-6637621.html
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