Adam Silver says NBA monitoring 'serious' tanking issue, claims they considered introducing relegation

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

That relegation idea posed is the dumbest scenario ever

I don’t see why it even came up in their discussion in the first place

 

[ORDER_66]

Tanking or throwing games will someone make sense of this for me...

 

[Trojan 24]

Literally nobody believe this fakkit

Stern gotta be looking up shaking his head at what this fakkit is doing to his league

 

[Hersh]

i still would want the worse teams with the best odds... but make it so if u can not get a top 3/5/10 (whatever NBA decides) the following year (to prevent multi year tanking (OKC/76rs years back)

 

[In The Zone '98]

A Dleague team would go 4-78.

Y'all need to dead that talk.

 

[mastermind]

Just stupid.

If you want to eliminate tanking, eliminate the draft.

 

[SchoolboyC]

Simple randomize the draft lottery completely, make every non-playoff team have an equal shot at landing the No. 1 pick

That was the original setup…but then people complained so they brought in the weighted lottery system

 

[Monsanto]

Indiana Pacers.

Couldn't be any clearer. 27 mins for Haliburton? Get Carlisle out of there.

 

[10bandz]

Relegate to where?

G League

Silver wants the NBA to be premier league so bad.

Yeah it definitely seems like Silver is intrigued about bringing global soccer concepts to the NBA.

 

[winb83]

Simple randomize the draft lottery completely, make every non-playoff team have an equal shot at landing the No. 1 pick

This is the best solution.

 

[ScoopNScore]

The new USFL set the foundation by making the two worst records play a Toilet Bowl to win the #1 draft pick , maybe have a tourney for the the 3nd to 7th worst records to earn the 1st to 4th picks and ones in dead last get put in the lottery for 5th pick on

 

[Boonapalist]

Yeah regulate it so the Spurs don’t have a chance of getting Wemby

 

[Instant Classic]

Maybe an auction draft using cap space can help curve tanking.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

That was the original setup…but then people complained so they brought in the weighted lottery system

Even now, the lottery system in its current form isn't that bad as we've seen teams in the latter half of the lottery managed to jump into the top 6 a la Memphis, New Orleans and even someone like Toronto. They should tweak the odds a bit more, but not to the point that they run the risk of a team that barely misses the playoff manages to end up with a #1 pick and a can't miss prospect in the process.

 

[winb83]

Even now, the lottery system in its current form isn't that bad as we've seen teams in the latter half of the lottery managed to jump into the top 6 a la Memphis, New Orleans and even someone like Toronto. They should tweak the odds a bit more, but not to the point that they run the risk of a team that barely misses the playoff manages to end up with a #1 pick and a can't miss prospect in the process.

There’s no problem with that if it discourages teams from tanking.