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In the Article “Hoop Dreams,” the national basketball association is using a strategy to land the top draft pick in hopes of redemption. Teams are using Tanking, which means to perform badly, and since the teams were awful they found this a genius idea. Tanking could make an awful team form into a championship team by having people root for the worst team hoping to make other teams follow and the awful team rise; however, this was then studied to be false, and not the case when wishing to build a championship team. The term treadmill of mediocrity, made average teams second guess there abilities to perform well, because the thought of advancing to a higher ranking seemed impossible. Although, a nearly average team, within years time, could

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