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[Oriole85]

Grantland: NBA Lottery Reform Is Coming

 

The league’s proposal gives at least the four worst teams the same chance at winning the no. 1 pick: approximately an identical 11 percent shot for each club. The odds decline slowly from there, with the team in the next spot holding a 10 percent chance. The lottery team with the best record will have a 2 percent chance of leaping to the no. 1 pick, up from the the minuscule 0.5 percent chance it has under the current system.

 

The proposal also calls for the drawing of the first six picks via the Ping-Pong ball lottery, sources say. The current lottery system actually involves the drawing of only the top three selections. The rest of the lottery goes in order of record, from worst to best, after the top-three drawing is over.

 

[SportsGuy]

Here's a crazy idea...the team with the worst record gets the first pick and you get rid of the dumbass lottery.

[Dupin]

Interesting changes. Are they trying to make tanking less (theoretically) beneficial?

[Oriole85]

Interesting changes. Are they trying to make tanking less (theoretically) beneficial?

 

The goal of this initial proposal is obvious: to prevent out-and-out tanking among the league’s very worst teams for the no. 1 pick. Equalizing the odds for the five worst teams, and giving the next few clubs odds very close to that 11 percent chance, goes a long way toward removing the incentive to race toward the bottom. That slice of the reform targets team’s like last season’s Sixers and the 2011-12 Bobcats, both of which rather blatantly constructed rosters designed to be as bad as possible in those particular seasons.

[SportsGuy]

Who cares if teams tank. They should.

[Mackus]

The lottery is stupid.   Worst team should get first pick, and so on.

 

If you want to prevent tanking, then form a committee to monitor teams and if they are found guilty of tanking, don't give them their share of league revenue sharing.  Or if they are paying into the revenue sharing and not getting money (I'm not sure how the NBA system works), then strip them of their 1st round pick, negating the benefit of the tanking.

[Pedro Cerrano]

The lottery is stupid.   Worst team should get first pick, and so on.

 

If you want to prevent tanking, then form a committee to monitor teams and if they are found guilty of tanking, don't give them their share of league revenue sharing.  Or if they are paying into the revenue sharing and not getting money (I'm not sure how the NBA system works), then strip them of their 1st round pick, negating the benefit of the tanking.

 

This is pretty much a textbook definition of slippery slope.

 

"Say, why are you starting 5 rookies?  You've lost 26 games in a row!"

 

"Well, this season is a lost cause and we want to see what we have in these youngsters."

 

"Are you sure you're not just tanking?"

 

"Nope.  We're giving our future some valuable in-game experience."