My idea to prevent tanking in the NBA

[Buckeye Fever]

Allowing tanking is the same as letting a whining toddler get their way.

"Eat your vegetables or else you don't get any dessert"

*Toddler sits and whines for the next 30 minutes and you eventually give in and give him the dessert*

 

[Bernie Madoff]

You ever seen your favorite basketball or football team tank for 3 years straight? shyt is atrocious and has me not paying any attention to those sports halfway through the season.

No actually I haven't rofl

 

[tremonthustler1]

what you do is something like every 2 years you take the teams with the 5 best regular season records and throw them into the lottery with some lottery teams and those 50 win teams get a chance to get a lottery pick...

So say you have the lottery and the top 5 picks are 76ers, nets, knicks, suns, mavs...

You have another lottery and you add the spurs, cavs, warriors, celtics, houston into it and you pick again...

Let a lottery team lose their lottery pick to a great franchise even one time and that will put an end to all that tanking shyt...cause if you do it two years in a row you might lose your pick to a really good team.

As a smart, driven, successful person, I am NOT a fan of any system that rewards incompetence, stupidity, and laziness, and that is exactly what the current nba draft does...the worst you run your franchise and the worse decisions you make the more likely you are to get into a position to draft a great player...

Something is wrong with a system in which a team like the spurs have won 50 + games for going on two straight decades and they have picked in the lottery exactly once...philly has more lottery picks IN A ROW than the spurs will have IN 20 YEARS...

Every League gives the worst teams the best shot at amateur talent. The NBA and NHL don't guarantee it. The nature of the game is why having a shot to land elite level talent is important. That's all high picks really offer: hope. Without hope there's no interest

 

[Bernie Madoff]

I'm from Philly nikka we the Gods of this shyt

It's been beautiful

God's of losing. Yes you guys definitely are the gods of losing! Congratulations!

 

[KingJay]

God's of losing. Yes you guys definitely are the gods of losing! Congratulations!

 

[Mr. Jack Napier]

Whatever to get rid of tanking, I'm all for it.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Pat Riley's idea is better than that even tho i didnt care for his idea much but i could see it working

Pat Riley: Have a separate playoff-like Tournament for the losing teams where the winner gets the top pick and slot them accordingly from there

Race for the number 1 seed

 

[hayesc0]

1st and foremost draft position should not be determined by your team loses. It should be based on how well the team played over the last 25 or 30 games. So when the season ends whatever teams that missed the playoffs who has the better record over the last 25 games get the most ping pong balls.

Also 8th seeds should not be punished for trying to make the playoffs. They should be included in the lottery.

This system would make almost every game down the stretch count. March/April games would mean something for every team. Hell u would see bad teams making trades at the deadline to compete instead of taking salary dumps


*based on last two months

1.Por 17-6
2.Mia 14-8
3.Den 13-9
4.Bulls 11-11
5.NO 11-11
6.BK 11-13
7.Cha 10-12
8.Dal 9-14
9.Det 8-14
10.Ny 7-15
11.Orl 7-15
12.Sac 7-15
13.Min 7-15
14.LAL 7-14
15.Phx 6-16
16.Phi 6-17

Teams would not shutdown players. So a lot of the teams listed above record could be even better.

I doubt the NBA would do this, but man even a early March or late April game between two bottom feeders would mean something.

Thoughts or tweaks

I like it they need to be more innovative also we need the best 16 team single bracket playoffs.

 

[hayesc0]

Relegation.

Kick the Knicks to the D-League and see if that don't make Dolan smarten the fukk up.

League would never do that lol they are the most profitable squad.

 

[Captain Crunch]

Get the rid of the draft, and implement a minimum and maximum budget for signing rookies. The minimum budget would be 5mil for teams with no cap space, and teams with cap space would have a max budget of 15mil.

 

[PortCityProphet]

Get rid of the draft. Free agent rookies. It's the only way to fix that garbage of a league

 

[sportscribe]

Only thing that will stop teams from tanking is the threat of losing revenue ie a relegation system. Bet you teams stop tanking then.

 

[Easy-E]

I've come around to ending the draft all together. It's an unfair system all around.

And tanking don't even work.

 

[tremonthustler1]

Get the rid of the draft, and implement a minimum and maximum budget for signing rookies. The minimum budget would be 5mil for teams with no cap space, and teams with cap space would have a max budget of 15mil.

If you get rid of the draft, you get rid of draft picks, which for many teams is their primary source (in some cases only source) of acquiring players.

 

[tremonthustler1]

Only thing that will stop teams from tanking is the threat of losing revenue ie a relegation system. Bet you teams stop tanking then.

And teams would wind up worthless in the NBA. Have you seen what a typical G-League looks like? That's how some arenas would look like since teams would charge major league money to watch a minor league product.

How would you even set up the second tier when the NBA already accepts more than half the teams in the playoffs?