Definitely a fair point about the potential lost earnings, Daniel. I hadn’t considered that. And I totally agree that it would be a rare occurrence for only the very best players in unique circumstances. I didn’t mean to insinuate that it would happen regularly.

I just think that even opening a small, exploitable loophole like that could be bad for the league. After all, the better the player, the more damaging such a decision would be to the team that gets told “Don’t draft me.” But like you say, it might happen seldom enough that mine is a moot point.