NBA: Proposal to Eliminate the Draft

[rayjayjohnson]

Not into religious stuff, but isn't the devils pentagram like that too?

Not quite, pentagram is five points, like a goat head, Star of David is six.

jews are evil tho

[ElNono]

Not quite, pentagram is five points, like a goat head, Star of David is six.

jews are evil tho

ray

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

The new CBA is what will prevent all the top stars from moving to the big markets. Lakers are a prime example of how the new CBA will bring talent parity to the league. LAL will have at most 2 superstars. (Forget for the moment that superstar no longer refers to Kirby) So with KB getting $23M next year and if Melo comes over for another $20M, then there isn't much left for the existing players. Many of them will have to leave because LAL will have to renounce their rights in order to get Melo. This will leave the team with 2 "stars", a resigned player or two for about $3M - $5M each and the rest will be scrubs. Good luck putting a le contender with that.

Teams that succeed will have a balanced payroll.

A new draft system will help kill tanking. Tanking could be the current biggest danger to the league right now. It endangers the integrity of the game and if the integrity is compromised, it becomes a dead sport to a lot of people. The league needs to eliminate tanking and eliminate any "incentives" to not being compe ive.

I like the idea because the good it does far outweighs any negatives it does for losing teams. The last time we had a decent pick was a looooong time ago. We built this team with scouting and development. That should be the goal of the other teams as well. It should not be the goal to get a winning team by buying the perfect team with an unlimited wallet and not by being in the lottery for years on end.

"built this team with scouting and development". The Spurs are still built around a former first overall pick the Spurs got by sucking.

[HarlemHeat37]

even last year, when the Spurs should have won the le, it was because Duncan was their best player in the playoffs and had a resurgence, tbh..


I don't have a problem with tanking or the draft, I don't know why fans and media are so obsessed with this topic, tbh..the current system is fine, there will always be teams tanking, and they should be allowed to choose whatever strategy they want to follow..

Tanking doesn't guarantee a top pick, and having a top pick doesn't guarantee a great player..if teams want to risk their season by tanking, that's cool with me..

The NBA usually has 2-3 contenders per year, a few dark horses, a bunch of playoff fodder followed by the ty teams..it's never going to change, tbh..this league is built around stars + there's the perpetual recycling of ty ex-player coaches kills teams..

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

The league could use a bit of that. I wouldn't mind seeing Milwaukee or Minnesota go s up tbh. Same for Charlotte and Washington (and Cleveland). They've historically fielded ty teams. I know Washington did ok when they had Arenas, but even that was one of the worst contracts in the history of contracts. Businesses that make bad decisions should close, not be rewarded with the latest, greatest discovery so they can become profitable again. I get it that they need each other else there's no compe ion, but the league needs to contract and players like Ayres and Blair need to be carrying out my ing groceries at HEB.

I agree completely that we need contraction, but I doubt this would do it. The league won't contract as long as smaller, ty cities like Milwaukee and Minneapolis are willing to subsidize the out of NBA teams by either pouring money into an arena the team owns, or in the event the city owns the arena, giving away a sweetheart lease deal where the city still loses money as the landlord.

Just look at what happens every time New Orleans is about to lose a pro team. Tom Benson bends the city over a table and gets like the $6M "retention fee" the city gives him for keeping the Saints in New Orleans every year. It's a joke to pretend pro-sports teams are totally independent private enterprises.

[ezau]

What's to stop top college players from waiting an extra year to go pro in order to avoid bad teams with #1 picks and be drafted by good teams with #1 picks?

Good point. Or, teams can actually scout a young player at an early age and take care of him until he is ready to be drafted 15-20 years down the road.

[Chinook]

Another update.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11...lottery-system

The NBA is pushing toward changes to the draft lottery system by next season but is facing a strong objection from the Philadelphia 76ers, the franchise that could suffer the most from it, multiple sources told ESPN.com.

Lottery-reform measures were introduced earlier this month at league meetings in Las Vegas, and the NBA Board of Governors could vote changes into place at its preseason meeting in October. Although there are several facets and the proposals haven't been finalized, the goal of commissioner Adam Silver is to balance out the lottery odds so the worst team or teams wouldn't have the highest chances of landing the top pick, sources said.


Currently, the team with the worst record has a 25 percent chance of landing the top pick and the team with the fifth-worst record has an 8.8 percent chance of winning it. In a new format, the bottom five or six teams could have an equal chance.


Grantland's Zach Lowe reported earlier this month on the NBA's proposed changes, which are essentially an attempt to squeeze the lottery odds at either extreme toward a more balanced system in which all 14 teams have a relatively similar chance at the no. 1 pick.


Although the NBA likely would not frame the changes this way, they could be seen as an anti-tanking measure, as teams with the worst records might not earn significantly higher lottery odds.

Interesting. I don't feel sorry for the Sixers at all.

[lefty]

Another update.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11...lottery-system



Interesting. I don't feel sorry for the Sixers at all.

I agree



But I really felt sorry for the Spurs at the end of the 96-97 season