Should NBA teams get compensation picks?

[Roy H.]

The NFL and MLB provide compensation when a certain level of star leaves in free agency.  Should the NBA adopt a similar procedure?  Losing a star free agent would give a team an extra first rounder slotted somewhere around 15 and 20.  Or, they could be granted an automatic trade exception.

Thoughts?

[Goldstar88]

The NFL and MLB provide compensation when a certain level of star leaves in free agency.  Should the NBA adopt a similar procedure?  Losing a star free agent would give a team an extra first rounder slotted somewhere around 15 and 20.  Or, they could be granted an automatic trade exception.

Thoughts?

I like the idea of an automatic trade exception, although it seems like most teams are easily able to do a sign and trade with the other team by throwing in a 2nd rounder. Might make more sense just to make it an automatic, though.

Not sure about a compensatory pick. How would the league determine where that compensatory pick would be in terms of draft order? I don’t see that working.

[Who]

Move to a hard cap. That way the team that loses it's star free agent  has the cap space needed to replace said star player.

[Csfan1984]

I like the idea of a Replacement exemption so they can sign a single player up to equal % of the cap.

[gouki88]

I think it should definitely be a thing. Or a hard cap. Something like either of these would be a good measure

[hwangjini_1]

The NFL and MLB provide compensation when a certain level of star leaves in free agency.  Should the NBA adopt a similar procedure?  Losing a star free agent would give a team an extra first rounder slotted somewhere around 15 and 20.  Or, they could be granted an automatic trade exception.

Thoughts?

aan interested idea, but why and how, exactly, do you think this will improve the nba? thanks.

[Celtics2021]

The NFL and MLB provide compensation when a certain level of star leaves in free agency.  Should the NBA adopt a similar procedure?  Losing a star free agent would give a team an extra first rounder slotted somewhere around 15 and 20.  Or, they could be granted an automatic trade exception.

Thoughts?

aan interested idea, but why and how, exactly, do you think this will improve the nba? thanks.

Certain markets are more likely to attract high-caliber free agents than others, so providing compensation for the loss of a free agent could help create a competitive balance.

That said, the baseball and football drafts are significantly larger, and accordingly draft compensation in the NBA might need to be significantly tightened.  Maybe to recent All-NBA players, for example (made the All-NBA in the last 2-3 years).

[jambr380]

I’ve always complained about this being unfair. Compensatory picks could get messy, but definitely think a TPE or PE of some sort should be given. Teams would still be at the mercy of the luxury tax so they would have to be careful about spending.

On a related note, and one that has affected the Cs multiple times in the last few years, I think it is really dumb that a team over the cap get an ‘MLE’ that is essentially (more than?) twice the amount a team just under the cap gets. Danny did amazingly getting the cap to work to sign Horford, Hayward, and Kemba, but he was never able to sign a real full MLE level impact player.

[mr. dee]

They should bring back the S&T from previous CBA where teams who traded for a certain player can get their bird rights.

[CFAN38]

My first reaction is that I like the idea of a cap exception over pick compensation.

The issue that I see with Cap compensation is it could very easily leave small market teams in developmental purgatory(not bad enough for top pick and not good enough for legit contention). When a team looses their franchise corner stone to FAs then is compensated with a large chunk of cap space this could cause them to over pay for aging vets or non star players.

Ultimately I think it’s worth it. Essentially the current use of S&Ts has created this system voluntarily. IE Kemba is about to leave but the teams do a swap and Hornets over pay Rozier (this worked out for Hornets).

Maybe the best option would be if a FA of say 5 year tenure leaves his tenured team for a contract over the MLE the team can create a 1 year Free agent cap exception for a percent of the exiting players contract (90%?), if the team elects to decline the exception. They can then be compensated with a compensation 1st round pick (last pick, so essentially 1st pick in 2nd) if the player sings for over 25% of the cap or two additional 2nds (61st and 62nd picks) if signing is less then 25%

[JBcat]

The NFL and MLB provide compensation when a certain level of star leaves in free agency.  Should the NBA adopt a similar procedure?  Losing a star free agent would give a team an extra first rounder slotted somewhere around 15 and 20.  Or, they could be granted an automatic trade exception.

Thoughts?

I’ve long thought yes on the pick compensation, and have posted my thoughts as such in the past on here.

In MLB you have to offer your pending free agent a qualifying offer for 1 year which I believe is the equivalent of the mean salary of the top 125 highest paid players (about 18 mil now) in order to qualify for a compensation pick. 

Let’s say we set the mark at 12 mil for the NBA(non tax payer level salaries and below don’t qualify).  Any pending free agent that leaves its former team who offered the 1 year qualifying offer is rewarded a compensation pick.  You could get creative and say a player who leaves for a max contract the former team is rewarded 2 compensation picks.  Different tiers for compensation picks would be cool.

I think something like this would help small market teams, and make it more difficult even if it’s just slightly for star players to pair up like they do now.

[SHAQATTACK]

The NFL and MLB provide compensation when a certain level of star leaves in free agency.  Should the NBA adopt a similar procedure?  Losing a star free agent would give a team an extra first rounder slotted somewhere around 15 and 20.  Or, they could be granted an automatic trade exception.

Thoughts?

The rotating door of Stars flying into LA ,  would do nothing but make them stronger .  They would just replace old stars with young ones even quicker .  Setting them up on the front end and back .

Players have too much control and are just dragging the nba around by their noses.

[PAOBoston]

Good in theory but not sure how it would work in practice tbh, at least not with picks. Maybe they get some sort of trade exception available instead to be able to make a move to replace lost player.

Ideally, in my perfect world, max contracts are gotten rid of and players can get paid what they are truly worth on the marketplace under a hard cap. So basically the only way to sign a FA is if you have space under the hard cap. Think it would give small market teams a chance to keep their stars. But the players union would never vote to get rid of max contracts.

[Moranis]

I almost prefer the franchise type system.  Where if you lose a guy you "franchise", the other team owes you a 1st round pick (when they next have one).  Only allow the franchise to be used once every 5 years or so, but at least then the compensation comes directly from the team that signs your player.