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If next season is canceled, how is 2012 draft order determined?

This makes taking a euro rookie even more intriguing in that they could still play for their current teams whereas who knows how many of the US kids will be able to play. Although I doubt it affects the draft order much if at all.
 
//r00t 4 Jazz said:
This makes taking a euro rookie even more intriguing in that they could still play for their current teams whereas who knows how many of the US kids will be able to play. Although I doubt it affects the draft order much if at all.
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If they dont sign their contract before the lockout begins couldn't the American kids go over and play in Europe as well? This way they could still make some dough.
 
NCJazz said:
If they dont sign their contract before the lockout begins couldn't the American kids go over and play in Europe as well? This way they could still make some dough.
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Since they will be locked out yes I believe they could but again how many would go over and how many of those euro teams would bring over 1yr rentals is more of what I was meaning.
 
//r00t 4 Jazz said:
Since they will be locked out yes I believe they could but again how many would go over and how many of those euro teams would bring over 1yr rentals is more of what I was meaning.
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Some of the teams have very wealthy owners (the Greek teams especially) and might make pretty generous 1yr offers.
 
Kenwood said:
I have to think they would use the 2011 standings again. There's no perfect solution, but I think that's most fair. I don't think there's any way to justify a scenario that has a top team getting a shot at a top pick (like a 30-team lottery). It's also unfair that a team's bad 2010-11 season gives them two top picks, because they might have improved in 2011-12, but it's more fair than the other way.
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This makes sense, however, the Jazz get screwed in this scenario. I'm willing to bet that our 2012 record will be A LOT worse than what we will end up with at the end of this season. So, for the 2012 draft lottery, instead of having the 3rd or 4th worst record in the league (and thus more ping pong balls in our favor) we'll get stuck with the 11-13th pick again...
 
Kenwood said:
I have to think they would use the 2011 standings again. There's no perfect solution, but I think that's most fair. I don't think there's any way to justify a scenario that has a top team getting a shot at a top pick (like a 30-team lottery). It's also unfair that a team's bad 2010-11 season gives them two top picks, because they might have improved in 2011-12, but it's more fair than the other way.
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This makes sense, however, the Jazz get screwed in this scenario. I'm willing to bet that our 2012 record will be A LOT worse than what we will end up with at the end of this season. So, for the 2012 draft lottery, instead of having the 3rd or 4th worst record in the league (and thus more ping pong balls in our favor) we'll get stuck with the 11-13th pick again...
 
In more Jazz get screwed news, although they are currently in 12th position among the teams not making the playoffs, they will probably end the season with a better record than one or more eastern conference teams that end up making the playoffs. The same thing could also happen with Golden State. I'll bet if there is no season next year they reseed the drafts by worst record without regard to whether they made the 2011 playoffs or not, so our two draft picks could actually move in the wrong direction by a couple of spots.
 
Pretty sure this is how the league will justify getting the Lakers the #1-#3 picks to ensure no let-down as the Kobe era slowly draws to a close.
 
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