Complex sentence: They initially refused to spend more than $10,000 per player; as a result, while they picked future stars as Ed "Too Tall" Jones, Rick Middleton and Randy Grossman, most of their draft picks were unwilling to play under such conditions.
Split into simpler sentences: They initially refused to spend more than $10,000 per player. As a result, while they picked future stars as Ed "Too Tall" Jones, Rick Middleton and Randy Grossman, most of their draft picks were unwilling to play under such conditions.