NBA plans to enact anti-tanking rules next season, sources say

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Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨RandAlThor@lemmy.ca⁩ to ⁨nba@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/47979919/nba-set-enact-anti-tanking-rules-next-season-sources-say

these concepts have been discussed to curb tanking:

First-round draft picks can be protected only for top-four or top-14-plus selections

Lottery odds freeze at the trade deadline or a later date

No longer allowing a team to pick in the top four in consecutive years and/or after consecutive bottom-three finishes

Teams can’t pick in the top four the year after making the conference finals

Lottery odds allocated based on two-year records

Lottery extended to include all play-in teams

Flatten odds for all lottery teams

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mill_city@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
I think flattening the odds would be the most effective at curbing tanking, but also might be hardest on bad teams.

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- RandAlThor@lemmy.ca ⁨35⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  I don’t expect it to be flat, but if they’ll make the slope flatter, I think that’s reasonable. Taking this along with making lottery odds based on 2 years record will make it fair, giving poor teams a chance to still have a better chance vs like a Dallas. I also like limiting teams top picks in consecutive years. Spurs were tanking for years and now they got a juggernaut, another dynasty out of nowhere.
  
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TAG@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I like the idea of allowing more teams to be draft eligible, since it gives hope to teams stuck in purgatory, not good enough to seriously contend for a title but too good to draft guaranteed talent in the draft.

I don’t like the idea of limiting the lottery eligibility of a team that finishes at the bottom for consecutive seasons (if they are not already ineligible for getting a high pick). It seems like unnecessary cruelty for a team to finish in the basement (because their best players all got old or left in free agency or something), then they lose the lottery despite good odds, and get told that next year they won’t get a good pick either. At that point, the team would have to spend 2 years with a roster of bench warmers.

Hopefully, if there are more strict anti-tank rules, they can get rid of the rules against resting star players. The restrictions are arbitrary and enforcement is random and unpredictable.

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RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
How about fixing the open corruption? It’s year after year of teams giving things away to the Lakers.

2012 Pelicans were for sale, rewarded with the 1st overall pick which allowed the team to find a buyer. 2019 the Pelicans give away Anthony Davis to the Lakers, get immediately rewarded with a 1st overall pick. 2024/25 the Mavericks give away Luka Donicic to the Lakers, immediately get rewarded with a 1st overall pick.

And it keeps going back. The worst trade in NBA history, the one that makes it illegal to trade draft picks in consecutive years. That’s how the Lakers got Magic Johnson and became the best team of that era.

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