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Handlogten's Heros said:
These are solid. Overall should just be some mechanism that’s spreads out the lotto luck. Maybe top pick every 4 years and can only move up into the top 4 two out of 4 years or something. If you get the number 1 pick you can’t move up for 4 years either. I would even allow team to pass on moving up if they don’t like the draft. So if Atlanta didn’t want #1 last year then declared yourself out of the lotto.
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I thought of something similar for bad drafts years. That seems like a workable approach, I think.

Let’s run with the scenario from last year and because the top of the draft is bottom-tier bad, such that nobody declares they want the #1 pick. Someone has to win it, so does the winner of the draft maintain their eligibility for future #1 picks? Sounds good to me if so.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
-I think I would make it 2 out of every 5 years for those teams that get stuck in bad drafts.

- I also think you have to have rules about teams with All NBA players already who happen to have bad injury luck randomly in a year.
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Also teams that have nice beaches in their city shouldn't be eligible. Or teams that are top 5 in NBA titles...

Or teams that don't start with the letter U.
 
Why not just take a teams pick away if they shamelessly tank. For example the Jazz got fined for not playing Markkanen. Under this rule instead of a fine or with the fine take the pick away. Wouldn’t that scare teams or most teams away from tanking?
 
Thee Idiotic Minivan K said:
Why not just take a teams pick away if they shamelessly tank. For example the Jazz got fined for not playing Markkanen. Under this rule instead of a fine or with the fine take the pick away. Wouldn’t that scare teams or most teams away from tanking?
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It would also cripple teams. Also, what is the line?

The problem I have with so much of this stuff is creating a structure that punishes anybody. Why? And why are we letting dice rolls determine parity and competitiveness when there is ZERO evidence it works? I really want to underscore this point, there is zero evidence that the lottery creates any significant disincentive to tanking. Some amount of tanking is probably inevitable, I’m actually not bothered by that. I’m bothered that a team can be stuck in a ditch whether they mean to or not and the Spurs and Cavaliers just hit over and over again.

The other problem with your suggestion AND the current lottery is that it gives the league too much power to change the histories if/when they choose too. Not just the history of the sport, the history of franchises, and the cities/regions that they belong to that are woven into the cultural and economic fabric of.

Let’s have a structure that just makes sense. This voodoo bull **** is stupid and it’s offensive that all they’ve done in their recent attempt is make it so a good team with some injuries can end up getting a generational talent. Makes no sense.
 
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NUMBERICA said:
It would also cripple teams. Also, what is the line?

The problem I have with so much of this stuff is creating a structure that punishes anybody. Why? And why are we letting dice rolls determine parity and competitiveness when there is ZERO evidence it works? I really want to underscore this point, there is zero evidence that the lottery creates any significant disincentive to tanking. Some amount of tanking is probably inevitable, I’m actually not bothered by that. I’m bothered that a team can be stuck in a ditch whether they mean to or not and the Spurs and Cavaliers just hit over and over again.

The other problem with your suggestion AND the current lottery is that it gives the league too much power to change the histories if/when they choose too. Not just the history of the sport, the history of franchises, and the cities/regions that they belong to that are woven into the cultural and economic fabric of.

Let’s have a structure that just makes sense. This voodoo bull **** is stupid and it’s offensive that all they’ve done in their recent attempt is make it so a good team with some injuries can end up getting a generational talent. Makes no sense.
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My point is if you tell teams that if they tank on purpose they’ll lose their pick. Isn’t that enough to keep teams from doing whatever it takes? Obviously guidelines would be hammered out. If it works maybe they do away with the lottery all together. Maybe hire an outside firm of some kind to judge weather a team is tanking or not.
 
The NBA has to do something to fix the quality of the product, I don’t really see anything else working kind of seems like it’s their only true option that fixes things
 
Labaron Philon has declared and is “all in” on the draft. On paper, he is right there with previous lotto guards like Castle, Black, and Wallace. You could make the argument he’s actually the best on paper out of that group.

His shot looks a little fugly and his physical tools leave something to be desired, but I don’t think there is that much of a difference in quality between he and lotto guards of years past. I think he’ll end up in my top 14.
 
Thee Idiotic Minivan K said:
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Nathaniel S. Butler/Getty ImagesPatrick Ewing and Hakeem Olajuwon will stake their Hall of Fame jerseys on Dwight Howard's affection.The Orlando Magic are attempting to go where no NBA team has gone before.
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Ewing and Hakeem standing next to each other. Hakeem looks like he’s either 6-10 or 6-11
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Hakeem standing next to a 7'4 14 year old
 
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