It's an interesting idea. At the same time, there are organizations that know how to draft wherever they are slotted and a majority that have no idea what they are doing.
Which begs the question why those orgs who have no clue should always get first crack at top players.
ehh.. i still think the teams with poor management will still fukk up no matter what picks they are getting.
They are trying to get an equal playing field like the NFL. It could work eventually but it will take a very long time to work, just think if the parity in the NBA was anything like the NFL
Love these comments. When read together, they form a perfectly coherent paragraph on the issues within the NBA. The NBA is trying to artificially manufacture competition to cover up for the elementary management skills possessed by front offices.
Everyone in the media is afraid to admit it outright. When fans get frustrated at ownership, we're dismissed as being unruly. The knicks don't need a #1 draft pick. We need Dolan to sell the team and leave the state.
The level of competition in the NFL is where it is, because of the talent entering the league AS WELL AS the coaching staff and front offices. Salary cap rules are the only things that put a cap on a front offices ability to field a good team. In the NBA, front offices routinely shoot themselves in the foot.
The culture behind developing talent, and evaluating talent is completely different from the NHL, NBA, MLB and NFL. Which leads to asinine practices like…...
fukk the lotto just go by worst team like the nfl and also limit the trades of draft picks to only 2-3 years this 2021 1st rd pick shyt ain't what's up....I don't care if a team tanks....
But I also think each team should have a max cap, a near max slot, with the rest been under 10 mill a year....so that will spread the teams out a bit more talent wise.
Basically if the Warriors pick was 8 or lower it would go to Utah. So Golden State lost just enough games at the end of the year to end up in the 7th slot in order to keep their first round pick for that year.
Complex derivative trading type draft scenarios. Ridiculous "I'll give you this draft pick in 2050 + cash" scenarios.
Then teams are going to continue to tank. No getting around that.
The most obvious solution is a lottery where every non-playoff team gets the same amount of ping-pong balls. Draw is done transparently live.
they should do a tourney with all non-playoff squads for the lotto seeds, i think simmons suggested that once. there would be so much fukkery if they did that in conjunction with the regular playoffs. plus that gets rid of all motivation to tank.
i also like taking record over the past three years into account, squads would think twice bout tankin for three years as opposed to one.
I like the three-year record idea for the lottery.
Someone put in the comments section of this article an idea of giving all the non-playoff teams a point system. Something along the lines of once a team is eliminated from playoff contention, each win they get counts as a point (kinda like the NHL) towards getting a better draft position. It would obviously have to be tweaked in some way because a team like the Jazz will get eliminated from contention in the West in March, whereas every team in the East will be alive until the last week.
I completely concur with rewarding teams for having good seasons, opposed to bailing out teams who have bad seasons.
A lot of bad franchises in the nba today have been bad franchises for years. The NFL can use the "worst record gets #1 pick" rule because of the level of parity. Nobody expected the redskins to be THIS bad. Nobody expected the Texans to be THIS bad. That is the only reason you could/should use that type of draft rule.
that's a lot of shyt I don't feel like reading
