NBA should only allow for a player to play no more than 4 yrs for a team

[I AM WARHOL]

Some one post that lebron with a tear gif

 

[Floyd Pinkerton]

But in words, WHY is this a bad idea?

You know how exciting this would be?

What if you draft Anthony Davis, but you have your mind 5 yrs in the future and you want to draft Westbrook when that time comes because you want Westbrook and AD to team up. I know you're asking "HOW?!! WHEN YOU HAVE THE CHANCE TO DRAFT WESTBROOK, AD WILL BE GONE!"

Redshirt AD for a year

Ok but now you're changing your own rules . Why are you punishing teams for drafting generational talents anyway? That's fukking stupid.

Besides, most teams don't plan beyond 4 years anyway. Pre-draft players are fungible assets.

 

[Lifer11]

Y'all gonna give reasons on why it's a bad idea or post smilies?

Very little continuity which would affect teams and in turn the league/quality of play negatively, it would remove professional freedom from grown men, and for lack of a better phrase-it's just corny as hell.

If anything there should be more incentives for players to remain with their original team.


Some ideas I thought of very briefly before to help the competitive balance and just make the league more interesting:

They should put some kind of rating/tier system for players in place and each team should only be able to have so many tier 1 players, or even like a rating system 1-5 and each team can only use like 23 pts total. Say KD and Steph are both 5s Klay is a 4 and Draymond is a 3, Golden State would have used up 17 pts already on 4 players and then have 6 pts remaining for 8 players so they'd have all scrubs, maybe even like D league level players could be rated a 0 so they could use up 2 pts for a starting center (19 pts total) then have 4 pts left for 7 players and be forced to fill out the roster with a few scrubs and D league players. Obviously that's a very rough idea but I think something like that could work to make the league more competitive.

They could also make like half of each team's games at neutral sites so a teams location wouldn't doom them to mediocrity or worse. Imagine if the month of January the Western conference played in Europe and the East played in Asia or Africa, then they switched in March after a month back in the States in Feb. The game would be truly international, and everyone would be on a level playing field in terms of location. Again the logistics would obviously have to be extremely well thought out but I think something like that could be really helpful and exciting.

Last thing I'd suggest, and I posted this on here before, is a tournament style standing system. Say after 20 games the bottom 7 teams moved into the B division, then after another 20 games the next 7 teams moved down into the B division. Then there's essentially a 42 game tournament between 16 teams in the A division to see who gets to compete for the Chip. Every game matters in a system like that. And the B division keeps playing too and now you have 2 NBA Finals series. You could even rework the draft around this somehow. Make it like the B division is playing for the 1st pick, but the better the team is the less points they have to use up on their players (in the earlier proposed tier/1-5 rating system), so the worst teams would have an advantage at adding a superstar or two and some solid role players in the offseason, and there'd be less incentive to tank (some teams would probably tank to drop into the B division and play for the top pick)

So for example right now the Nuggets and Heat would be playing for the 1st pick, but the Nets, Lakers, 76ers, and Suns would have the most pts to use up in free agency, while also having a top 14 pick.

 

[SAINT]

 

[FaTaL]

But in words, WHY is this a bad idea?

You know how exciting this would be?

What if you draft Anthony Davis, but you have your mind 5 yrs in the future and you want to draft Westbrook when that time comes because you want Westbrook and AD to team up. I know you're asking "HOW?!! WHEN YOU HAVE THE CHANCE TO DRAFT WESTBROOK, AD WILL BE GONE!"


























Redshirt AD for a year

maybe these players dont want to be in the draft again and test free agency instead

 

[Broke Wave]

Just get rid of the Salary cap, eventually there will be enough talent so there will be at least 5-6 great teams every year like the premiership

 

[CantStop]

Say what you want but this is a better idea than the mess that is the NBA. It's one thing to have no parity but no competition whatsoever? . A cac told me today NHL > NBA and I couldn't even say anything. I just took the L.

 

[Fenian]

Get rid of the salary cap and max contracts, let players get paid whatever a team wants to pay them without some dumb rule limiting it, and everyone should have a no trade clause, what kind of professional athlete can get traded to another team and have zero say? If my work could just move me to the other end of the country against my will I'd be on strike right now.


You shouldn't try to artificially force parity, if a team is well ran they'll win and if they're not they'll lose. That's how sports are meant to work.

 

[Wiles]

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[JackRoss]

Derrick and Joakim

Luol woulda been gone

 

[Damnshow]

Get rid of the salary cap and max contracts, let players get paid whatever a team wants to pay them without some dumb rule limiting it, and everyone should have a no trade clause, what kind of professional athlete can get traded to another team and have zero say? If my work could just move me to the other end of the country against my will I'd be on strike right now.


You shouldn't try to artificially force parity, if a team is well ran they'll win and if they're not they'll lose. That's how sports are meant to work.

they wont do this because nba business is sort of money laundering scam too

the players are given maximum amount of money they can get, when their true value is more than that. It's stupid.

if there was no salary cap the nba would have a much better parity because there would be teams offering HUGE money just to keep their players, and ring chasing would become less obvious because if someone offers you like 10+mil more per season you gotta be stupid not to take the offer.

they claim that salary cap helps the small market teams, but for a small market team to win a title their ownership has to pay huge money. Look at dan gilbert, he be spending the most money for the roster to win the title, cleveland was considered the small market and they pay the most.

if you cant run your team you dont deserve a title (okc thunder)

 

[JackRoss]

Chris Duhon

I think i fukk with this idea now a little

Tyrus Thomas

Bye nikkas

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

Ignore the fact that there has only been a hand full of different teams to win a championship not named Bulls,Celtics,Lakers brehs...
The NBA has been like this forever and now it's a problem

 

[DONCIC]

And see no more careers like Dirk on the Mavs, Kobe on the Lakers, Duncan on the Spurs etc

Those are special

No thanks

 

[KingJay]

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