Dr. Giganto

Good answers guys...I enjoyed reading the thought process you guys had when considering these situations (as unlikely as they are to truly occur)

Here are a few more I thought of:

3. You are both the head coach and the GM of the Philadelphia 76ers. Throughout the season, there has been bad blood between your team and the New Jersey Nets. In fact, the last time you played the Nets, there was a bench-clearing brawl.

You play the Nets in the last game of the regular season, with your team tied for the #4 seed and the Nets tied for the #8 spot. The tiebreakers are such that a Nets win guarantees them a spot in the playoffs, and if you beat the Nets, they finish out of the playoffs. Also, a win guarantees you home-court in the first round, and a loss guarantees you the 5 seed.

Last year (before all the bad blood), you made a trade with the Nets that included a conditional pick. Namely, you receive the Nets first-round pick, so long as it is not a lottery pick (basically, you would get the 15th overall pick in the draft if the Nets beat you). The draft is considered deep, with a great deal of talent available.

Would you intentionally lose the final game of the regular season, costing yourself home-court advantage in the first round, in order to get the draft pick from the Nets?

4. You are the head coach of the Buffalo Bills. As time expires in regulation, you have just scored a TD, and you trail the opposing team by one point, pending the PAT.

Earlier in the game, your kicker was injured while making a tackle on a kickoff return. Your punter tried handling the field goal/PAT responsibilities, but missed badly on two PAT attempts and a chip-shot field goal. However, he did make his last PAT attempt and says he thinks he's got the hang of it. You asked your team if anybody else has any experience kicking, and nobody said a word. Your punter is your only option at kicker.

Your offense is a league-average offense, playing a league-average defense.

So, do you send your punter out to attempt the PAT and try to win it in OT, or do you go for two and decide the game right then and there?

5. You are the owner of the Kansas City Royals. Your team has struggled financially for several years, even after revenue-sharing is taken into account. Because of your recent lack of success, no free agents want to sign with you. Your GM has attempted to reach contract extensions with some of your good young players, but they usually leave as soon as they become free agents.

An extremely wealthy Latino businessman approaches you and offers you the following deal: For each of the next 10 years, if you field an all-Latino team, he will give you $50 million a year at the end of the season, to use toward salaries for talented players (as long as they are Latino).

Your 25-man roster is currently composed of 15 Latinos and 10 non-Latinos, and your 10 non-Latinos are all tradable players (i.e. no bad contracts, no injury problems, no bad attitudes, etc.). In the most recent season, Latinos made up 60% of all MLB players, so there is a wealth of talented Latino players out there.

Do you make the deal with the businessman?