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2025-2026 Tank Race Prediction Contest and Current Results Thread

framer said:
Naw, the league is going to give them that top 4 pick NEXT year. . .
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HermanG said:
Also if you believe in conspiracies and rigged drafts you should believe that finishing 9th is the best we can do to ensure rigging goes our way.

OKC is a small market team who already won a chip and is looking like a future powerhouse. That role belongs to the Celtics, Lakers etc... so NBA cant have any of that.
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Yeah, I thought that Philadelphia keeping their pick last year was pretty predictable. Maybe the league will give us the same courtesy after OKC wins 70 games this year.

The league may not be done helping Dallas though.
 
Every time I think about losing the pick I'm reminded that we gave Favors and Clarkson just enough money to make it a rounding error that put us over the tax. The gold trips Ryan Smith paid for with this pick are well worth it!
 
KqWIN said:
Every time I think about losing the pick I'm reminded that we gave Favors and Clarkson just enough money to make it a rounding error that put us over the tax. The gold trips Ryan Smith paid for with this pick are well worth it!
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Messing up the cap math was hilarious... and a few of us dumbasses caught it at the time.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
Messing up the cap math was hilarious... and a few of us dumbasses caught it at the time.
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It’s crazy how close it was. I remember running the numbers and figuring out that if Dok had not taken 120% of the rookie scale we could have ducked it. I was probably off by a bit, but it gives context to just how close it was. Had either Clarkson or Favors taken a tiny discount (we probs were bidding against ourselves), we'd be in the clear.
 
KqWIN said:
It’s crazy how close it was. I remember running the numbers and figuring out that if Dok had not taken 120% of the rookie scale we could have ducked it. I was probably off by a bit, but it gives context to just how close it was. Had either Clarkson or Favors taken a tiny discount (we probs were bidding against ourselves), we'd be in the clear.
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Favs wasn't gonna walk over a 500k-1M discount. JC likely wasn't either. Just from a cash management standpoint leaving that money on the table was wild. If you really wanted Doke and wanted to save cash then go ahead and trade back into the second round. That summer was a weird dumpster fire of absolutely unforced errors.
 
NOP traded the Indiana first in 2026 for the 23rd pick in last year's draft. They traded the 23rd pick and their own 2026 first round pick for Derik Queen.

Right now you don't have to try really hard to get a tankathon sim that lands 2 of the first 3 picks in Atlanta (through NO) and Indiana. In like a 2 week span Dumars nuked NO in a way that is just so unbelievable.
 
hgb said:
Trade the 2nd worst of Jazz/Cavs/Wolves/LAL in '27 (worst is already going to Suns) to OKC for that '26 pick, make playoffs, watch Wolves plunge to lottery behind injuries, swap pick with Wolves, draft star, win title.
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They are not trading us the pick back for anything less than way too much. On the other side, the Jazz can choose to be terrible and end up with a better pick anyway. Neither side has a compelling reason to deal.

The swap component is noteworthy, but that’s precisely why the Thunder would be dicks about it.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
NOP traded the Indiana first in 2026 for the 23rd pick in last year's draft. They traded the 23rd pick and their own 2026 first round pick for Derik Queen.

Right now you don't have to try really hard to get a tankathon sim that lands 2 of the first 3 picks in Atlanta (through NO) and Indiana. In like a 2 week span Dumars nuked NO in a way that is just so unbelievable.
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The Indiana trade was bad luck. This was traded before Haliburton went down. It wasn't a bad trade at the time, but looks bad now. The Atlanta trade is still unfathomably bad.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
The Indiana trade was bad luck. This was traded before Haliburton went down. It wasn't a bad trade at the time, but looks bad now. The Atlanta trade is still unfathomably bad.
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The Queen trade might go down in history as one of the biggest blunders ever.
 
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