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 were the example you used, not me. provide an example of a team you think IS the right type to look at. you like moving the goalposts every time there's pushback on your ideas.
you can point to any team in this league and they'll either be blatant tankers who've had multiple shots at top draft picks and either done poorly or well or the 'mid-lottery' teams that can have the same things said about them.
bottom line, restrict the number of consecutive attempts at the brass ring. if a team sucks in a year where the top player is a Kenyon Martin/Michael Olowakandi/etc... so be it. if they suck and the top player is Lebron, so be it.
Take a look at your prized team Philly. Look at how many cracks they've had at top players during their 'Process'. you can sit there and bemoan "oh, the talent isn't as good as when they're weren't in the Process" which is total crap. They had a rookie of the year in MCW (a very weak rookie class that year) who they traded to get worse. they end up in drafts getting Ben Simmons (considered a generational talent but passing on Jaylen Brown and Brandon Ingram), Joel Embiid falling into their laps but taking Elfrid Payton in that same draft (while passing on Jokic, Mcdermott, Saric, Lavine, Nurkic, Capela and several other better players), Jahlil Okafor (while passing on Porzingis, Myles Turner and Devin Booker to name a few), Markelle Fultz (while passing on Ball and Jayson Tatum), Mikal Bridges (eventually traded and passing on SGA).
That's just several of their drafts. again, no sympathy if they were barred from making high picks every other year or every 2 years. hell, it might improve their drafting based on how they picked and how much talent was still on the board.
no sympathy for teams that want to rely on tanking for high draft picks getting blocked from an every-year shot at it.
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