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Because Older People Are Running Out Of Time To See Them Be Good Again
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More teams are taking the extreme path of tanking seasons in order to improve for the long term through their leagues' drafts, and this column by the Philadelphia Inquirer's Mike Sielski wonders if the fans' acceptance of tanking is age-dependent: the columnist notes that in the case of the Philadelphia 76ers, young fans are in the "Trust the Process" mode while older fans are fed up. (I'm an older Sixers fan and I'm in the "we have no choice but to trust the process" category.). It might be because older fans yearn for the good old days when the team was consistently good while Millennials only remember mediocrity or worse. But are young people more open to a team getting bad before they get good? (Philadelphia Inquirer)
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