Why doesn't the NBA just End Tanking ?
Just putting it out there...
Deliberately playing to lose is bad for sports, athletes, coaches and fans yet tanking is an artform in the NBA. It sucks wanting your team to win but at some level hoping they lose to secure a better chance in the lottery. So why doesn't the NBA just end this blight on their product.
I wonder why they don't start afresh by drafting purely by equal random lottery for all 30 teams, whether playoff or not, so there's no benefit whatsoever in the draft from tanking. Equal chance sounds fair. The league could continue with random lottery every year, or adjust picks in a fair basis so over time every team gets an equal range of picks of different quality.
For example, divide all teams into 3 groups according to their pick in year one then rotate the order every subsequent year. So the Pels might get a top ten pick in year one, that means in year two they get a second tier pick from 11-20, and in year 3 a third tier pick from 21-30, then in year four they get back into the top ten and all teams rotate in a similar fashion.
That's just one way of doing it but the concept is that over time the process should benefit all teams equally. What do you think ? :huh2: