NBA Teams Looking Into New Ways To Prevent Teams From Tanking

[Moranis]

Something along these lines.

No longer allowing a team to draft in the top four two years in a row.

so bad teams never get better and end up like the Kings forever. 

The best solution is if the league thinks a team is tanking is to fine the ever loving he'll out of them for conduct detrimental to the sport. You start hitting the owners pocketbook and they will listen.  Only thing they will listen to honestly.

[slamtheking]

Something along these lines.

No longer allowing a team to draft in the top four two years in a row.

so bad teams never get better and end up like the Kings forever. 

The best solution is if the league thinks a team is tanking is to fine the ever loving he'll out of them for conduct detrimental to the sport. You start hitting the owners pocketbook and they will listen.  Only thing they will listen to honestly.

and the problem with badly managed teams like the Kings staying bad is what?  They've been bad for about 20 years regardless of how many cracks at the lottery they've had.  They've gotten good players in the draft and none of them are left on the team because they've been dealt away.  that's on their mismanagement.  why should the league coddle incompetence?

[Goldstar88]

Something along these lines.

No longer allowing a team to draft in the top four two years in a row.

so bad teams never get better and end up like the Kings forever. 

The best solution is if the league thinks a team is tanking is to fine the ever loving he'll out of them for conduct detrimental to the sport. You start hitting the owners pocketbook and they will listen.  Only thing they will listen to honestly.

and the problem with badly managed teams like the Kings staying bad is what?  They've been bad for about 20 years regardless of how many cracks at the lottery they've had.  They've gotten good players in the draft and none of them are left on the team because they've been dealt away.  that's on their mismanagement.  why should the league coddle incompetence?

Exactly. That?s a management issue.

[Moranis]

Something along these lines.

No longer allowing a team to draft in the top four two years in a row.

so bad teams never get better and end up like the Kings forever. 

The best solution is if the league thinks a team is tanking is to fine the ever loving he'll out of them for conduct detrimental to the sport. You start hitting the owners pocketbook and they will listen.  Only thing they will listen to honestly.

and the problem with badly managed teams like the Kings staying bad is what?  They've been bad for about 20 years regardless of how many cracks at the lottery they've had.  They've gotten good players in the draft and none of them are left on the team because they've been dealt away.  that's on their mismanagement.  why should the league coddle incompetence?

Exactly. That?s a management issue.

No, the Kings are a mostly mid lottery team.  Rarely bad enough to get a top tier pick, so they never get the talent to move out of no man's land.  That is the perfect example of what will happen to bad teams that are restricted from actually getting the talent needed to not be bad.  Now sure they've also been poorly managed and took Bagley instead of Doncic the one time they've had a top 3 pick since 1991 (when they had the 4th pick recently they took Murray which is actually a solid pick, he just isnt good enough of a player to move the needle).  But poorly managed isnt tanking.  If the goal is to end tanking then that isnt the right type of team to look at.

[keevsnick]

I do find the "can't pick top 4 two years in a row" thing sort of interesting, since it would actually do very little to fix anything THIS YEAR. The top 4 picks last year were....

Dallas (Injured, but not really tanking).
Spurs (Not Tanking)
76ers (Not Tanking)
Hornets (Sort of tanking, but not the worst).

So in other words this rule would do nothing to stop the tanking from teams like Washington, Brooklyn, Ind ect. 

I also very much islike the "can't pick top 4 two years in a row." So what happens if you get the #1 pick in a draft with..... let's say Zachary Risacher as the #1 pick. You just can't get Cooper Flagg next year? How is that fair, it makes the year you happen to be bad in too important. I'd be fine with "can't pick top 4 THREE years in a row" or "can't pick #1 two years in a row."

[Goldstar88]

Something along these lines.

No longer allowing a team to draft in the top four two years in a row.

so bad teams never get better and end up like the Kings forever. 

The best solution is if the league thinks a team is tanking is to fine the ever loving he'll out of them for conduct detrimental to the sport. You start hitting the owners pocketbook and they will listen.  Only thing they will listen to honestly.

and the problem with badly managed teams like the Kings staying bad is what?  They've been bad for about 20 years regardless of how many cracks at the lottery they've had.  They've gotten good players in the draft and none of them are left on the team because they've been dealt away.  that's on their mismanagement.  why should the league coddle incompetence?

Exactly. That?s a management issue.

No, the Kings are a mostly mid lottery team.  Rarely bad enough to get a top tier pick, so they never get the talent to move out of no man's land.  That is the perfect example of what will happen to bad teams that are restricted from actually getting the talent needed to not be bad.  Now sure they've also been poorly managed and took Bagley instead of Doncic the one time they've had a top 3 pick since 1991 (when they had the 4th pick recently they took Murray which is actually a solid pick, he just isnt good enough of a player to move the needle).  But poorly managed isnt tanking.  If the goal is to end tanking then that isnt the right type of team to look at.

The kings have had plenty of top picks and they miss 80% of the time. That?s on management.

2022: #4 overall (K. Murray)

2021: #9 overall (Mitchell)

2018: #2 overall (Bagley)

2017: #5 overall (Fox)

2015: #6 overall (Cauley-Stein)

2014: #8 overall (Staukas)

2013:  #7 overall (McLemore)

2012: #5 Overall (Thomas Robinson)

2010 #5 overall (Cousins)

2009 #4overall (Tyreek Evans)