RE: Three Changes that Need to be Made to the NBA Draft
I think all three are great ideas. We all know that #3 won't ever happen but the more I think about it. It would be really interesting. I'm not sure I agree with it really helping the small market teams however. What would make a kid that's a certified (6mil) star, want to head for a small market team when a big city team in the hunt or actually on top is vying for his services? I think if anything.....you'll start to hear nonsense of players, teams and agents selling kids on teams while they are just starting freshman year or still in high school. It always starts out innocent and for the good of the game and then quickly....well....you know.
I love number 1 and have thought about it. But you are right...the tanking will be from the 6-8 seed teams. That's where the problem will move to. The financial reward is going to have to be enough to "matter". And I'm not so sure the owners would agree to a fund a "playoff participant pool". Interesting.
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Yea there are definitely some tweaks and details that need to be ironed out for #3 to actually work at all. I know that there's a way to make it all work, I would just have to think a lot more about it and come up with ideas to cover every issue.
As for what you said about tanking for the 6-8 seeds. I don't think that would be an issue. Making the playoffs is such a huge boost for teams that tanking out of the playoffs just to have a chance at the top pick probably isn't worth it for teams. Remember, the team has an equal chance of getting the last pick of the lottery as it does of getting the top pick under my system.