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

[Paper Boi]

ok go back and penalize the thunder and rockets for sitting former all star players still in their "prime"

 

[nieman]

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

Exactly. That's been my suggestion for years. Every team has an equal shot at #1, 2, 3 etc...through the entire first round. Now every team has no choice but to try to win every game and those traded picks really matter, so teams make better trades.

The only loophole would be teams that trade to stockpile picks.

 

[threattonature]

He's too swayed by online conversations. There will be bad teams every year. There will always be teams that decide they are going nowhere so it makes sense to start over and rebuild. For some reason only the NBA takes that criticism to heart when it happens. The current method is probably as close as they'll get to getting it right.

 

[Shadow King]

No. Leave it how it is.

 

[winb83]

Teams are going to tank regardless and changing up the lottery odds isn't going to change that. For the majority of these teams this year, ending up in the lottery and the chance to get Wemby outweighs making the play-in tournament. Even someone like Sacaramento who hasn't made the playoffs in nearly 20 years would benefit from getting Wemby even if it meant another year of not making the playoffs.

If there’s no odds difference between worst record and say 12 worst once a team has been eliminated from the playoffs they have incentive to play to develop the future and try to get some type of winning culture going.

 

[Youhadasparkwhenustarted]

Just stupid.

If you want to eliminate tanking, eliminate the draft.

I was thinking the same. Let teams bid for these players ouright if silver cares so much.

 

[AAKing23]

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

nikka no

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

If there’s no odds difference between worst record and say 12 worst once a team has been eliminated from the playoffs they have incentive to play to develop the future and try to get some type of winning culture going.

You’d still have teams tanking to miss the playoffs instead of developing for the future, so the tanking problem would still be there. Let’s also not forget that teams in the latter half of the lottery have jumping teams with better odds under this new format, so it’s not like the current system is working.

The odds just needs to be tweaked a bit more.

 

[NoMorePie]

But let the thunder and rockets bench healthy players in their prime and turn a blind eye

 

[Loose]

Teams have no control over players careers, one way to build teams is through draft. Silver doing to much lol.

 

[El Bombi]

Literally nobody believe this fakkit

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

Gotdamn breh

 

[RammerJammer]

fukk Adam Silver

 

[Regular_P]

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)

This shoulda been put in place when the Cavs got the #1 overall pick three out of four years when LeBron left the first time. That was absolute bullshyt.

But also the conversation about tanking has gotten so big that people don’t seem to understand that some teams are just genuinely bad. Like even if every team tried their best to put in the most competitive team possible regardless of if it only strengthens them in the short-term, there’s still gonna be trash teams.

It is what it is.

But let the thunder and rockets bench healthy players in their prime and turn a blind eye

This is the biggest issue with tanking. It's one thing to put together a trash roster or trade your best players away. It's another when they're sitting out half their team with "back soreness" once the All-Star break hits.

 

[mastermind]

nikka no

that is how it was before Orlando won the lottery again in 1993.

 

[KidJSoul]

Just leave it be.

Why is tanking so bad?

It's the only way to get a top prospect. Otherwise you'll be stuck being mediocre for a decade.

The Bulls wouldn't be a storied franchise if they weren't able to get a high pick in Michael Jordan after being bad.