NBA urgently needs to change the lottery

[Sarcastic]

To stop tanking, they have to remove the incentive to be bad. The Wheel solves this problem. No point in being bad when your draft slot is predetermined.

[sd3035]

Of course it is.

Better than being a Craptors fan

[DrakeTheSnake]

They should just add a rule where a team who gets a top 3 pick isn't eligible for another top 3 pick for 3 years. That way you wouldn't have teams like Philly taking top 3 draft picks every season.

There needs to be an bust exception. Like some way of measuring the picks to see if the team genuinely got a dud, whether it is games played, minutes played, some specific stat production, or a combination.

[ralph_i_el]

There needs to be an bust exception. Like some way of measuring the picks to see if the team genuinely got a dud, whether it is games played, minutes played, some specific stat production, or a combination.

Then what's the point of trying to be good at scouting and drafting? Just draft the riskiest players if you get rewarded for busts.

[ralph_i_el]

the idea I like that will NEVER happen.

Turn the d-league in to a decent league and then the bottom 2 teams in each conference get demoted to the d-league and the top 2 d-league teams get promoted to the NBA.

Hopefully it would encourage people to look at the d-league as a way to potentially own an NBA team and the quality there would be improved.

Owners won't do it. That would drastically decrease the value of each of their teams.

When every owner is going to lose $100m+ on a plan, count on it NOT happening.

[dunksby]

They should have tiers.

Top 4 worst records are eligible for the first 4 picks.
Next 6 worst gets pick 5-10.
Then you have your last 4.

All teams should have equal chances in the tier.

So make it more attractive for teams to tank? Lmao!

[ralph_i_el]

oh a team that got where they are today from being terrible and being in the lottery every year?

Not from getting top-5 picks though

They were a winning team, lost Baron Davis, had a bad season, then drafted Curry 7th. They had a couple more bad seasons, but they weren't from tanking. They signed David Lee and were trying to be a good team.

So the warrior's core comes from

Curry- 7th Pick
Klay Thompson- 11th Pick
Draymond Green- 35th pick
Harrison Barnes- 7th Pick


The only time they legit tanked is when they sat people out at the end of a season so they could keep the pick that netted them Barnes. If they had the 8th pick they would have lost it (to NY I think? I forget)

[GOBB]

You guys are all on the Sixers nutsac, yet prior to the Sixers tanking you had NO problem with the lottery system? If you did, please feel free to speak up.

Sac Kings, Wolves live in the lottery. Call me when both place a change of address out of it.

OP is a Warriors fan, again your franchise spent more years in the lottery than the Sixers. And like most teams in the lottery got lucky to hit a home run with Steph Curry.

[24-Inch_Chrome]

Better than being a Craptors fan

Anything is better than hopping on a bandwagon.