NBA Voting on Draft Lottery Reform Tomorrow

[FTBS]

Damn I never thought about the impact this change would have on small market teams. It is true though, the draft is the only way for small market cities to get a star player.

I was all for the NBA changing the draft lottery until I read that. Just keep the lottery the way it is.

How does either new proposal preclude them from getting a star player?

 

[AAKing23]

Who cares nikka our tank is done wit after this year the pieces are in place already

 

[muzikfrk75]

 

[LurkMoar]

OKC thinking they might need the tank in a couple years

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

proposal A seems good. id also cosign a lottery ball penalty on teams who lose over 55 games

 

[tremonthustler1]

man you go with proposal B, and all that tanking business would go right out the window.

tanking does not exist. All this reform over what one team is CHOOSING to do with their organization (and we don't even know if it'll work-- believe it or not, Philly intends to win at some point).

 

[tremonthustler1]

That's the way it is and has been. T-Wolves have had lottery pick after lottery pick and have sucked for a decade. The Clippers sucked forever. Let some teams that might actually do something with it, a shot at some of the young talent. Beyond that, there are ways outside of the draft to pull yourself up from sucking. It's much harder to pull yourself out of the dreaded middle.

They DO. That's how most teams get to where they are. It's almost impossible to get to a certain level in the NBA without getting through that murky point of the middle of nowhere. It's not even a fool proof plan THEN.

If anything, by doing that, you're proving what the NBA is dying not to admit (you're fukked if you pick anywhere after 10 by and large. THAT is the real problem and the only way to fix it is for better players to exist)

 

[tremonthustler1]

What's wrong with an average to slightly subpar but not completely ass team getting a high draft pick every once in a while? If teams are getting high picks and still remaining trash what's the point?

That JUST happened and everyone bytched and yelled conspiracy (Cleveland Cavaliers). Once that happened everyone wanted reform so that they're not so lucky.

If Philly wins, people will bytch. If Minny wins, people will bytch. If other random teams win, people will bytch. Why? How? That's what's been happening.

 

[tremonthustler1]

Damn I never thought about the impact this change would have on small market teams. It is true though, the draft is the only way for small market cities to get a star player.

I was all for the NBA changing the draft lottery until I read that. Just keep the lottery the way it is.

here is the oxymoron to this whole fukking process.

PHILADELPHIA has somehow become the poster child for small market problems.

Not Minneapolis. Not OKC. Not Sacramento. Not any of these teams that have been losing for a long ass time. Philafukkingdelphia.

 

[Malta]

here is the oxymoron to this whole fukking process.

PHILADELPHIA has somehow become the poster child for small market problems.

Not Minneapolis. Not OKC. Not Sacramento. Not any of these teams that have been losing for a long ass time. Philafukkingdelphia.

Ontop of all that, they drafted the player everyone picked as the true number 1 the last two years in a row

If Embiid and Noel pan out, they wont be in the draft for another decade.

 

[Slow Moving]

Hey I know a way to fix the lottery why dont they contract teamsshyt is so easy a cave man can do it

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

here is the oxymoron to this whole fukking process.

PHILADELPHIA has somehow become the poster child for small market problems.

Not Minneapolis. Not OKC. Not Sacramento. Not any of these teams that have been losing for a long ass time. Philafukkingdelphia.

yeah thats amusing. the perception of philly tanking is fairly valid but at the same time noel and embiid cant really be contested much right now as a viable plan for the future whether they were/are injured at the time or not. both were projected #1..it just so happens that they were significantly injured. why would they commit big $ to some players on long term deals when their two best prospects are both a year or two away? so yeah..theyre not trying to win right now but what they are doing is completely rational. spurs won the lotto when robinson was out all year to get Duncan and somewhat tanked when they couldve brought DRob back..nothing happened to the system then.

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

Ontop of all that, they drafted the player everyone picked as the true number 1 the last two years in a row

If Embiid and Noel pan out, they wont be in the draft for another decade.

beat me to it

 

[tremonthustler1]

Ontop of all that, they drafted the player everyone picked as the true number 1 the last two years in a row

If Embiid and Noel pan out, they wont be in the draft for another decade.

and that's the other risk Philly is taking. They're drafting injured players and stash aways hoping they can skip that 8-14 part and form like Voltron towards a playoff run. It's a gamble that's a different route than what other teams have been doing.

the #1 pick for the most part beyond a competitive aspect puts asses in seats.

Andrew Wiggins (special case, different circumstances) gets drafted by Cleveland-- season tickets get gobbled up. He gets traded to Minny, season tickets went UP. If the reform passes, what you'll be seeing is markets that will never see that uptick in fan interest because there won't be an incentive to go. That's not a problem the NBA wants because if you can't drum up interest in several areas, it looks bad for the overall brand. Look at the Pistons (and they may have stumbled into their franchise player in Drummond for all we know). That arena is putrid when it's empty. Now try having that problem in ten constant places.

 

[Da_Eggman]

i say have all 14 non-playoff teams with an equal chance of nabbing the No. 1 pick.