Isn’t the Anti Tanking Changes going to screw legit bad teams?

Yes. Unfortunately, unless there's a way to determine who's legitimately tanking and who's legitimately bad, that's life. It's the result of too many teams abusing the system - unfortunately, it's no longer "the few".

That said, it's kind of similar to relegation in soccer without the harshness of the punishment. It incentivizes teams to at least TRY to be good. Even without a top draft pick, a good front office shouldn't perpetually be in the bottom 3 teams year after year.

Its such a big deal in the NBA because a generational player can change the course of a franchise for a decade. Players rarely have that kind of impact in other leagues. Getting the next Lebron or Duncan or Jordan or Kobe is worth sucking for several years. Not really true in other sports.

Yeah, big huge markets like Cleveland and San Antonio getting some of the best players of their generations seems like a huge NBA conspiracy.

 

Tanking is a big deal to Adam Silver now because of sports gambling and how important it is to the NBA. When tanking teams sit all their starters and playing a bunch of g league scrubs it reduces gambling revenue from those games.

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/nba-rumors-insider-claims-angry-172311841.html

 

What the new rules could mean is that no team is happy to sit around trying to lose games.
Your odds for a top pick are greater if you manage to win some, sure, but this means your off-season might involve active recruitment of both players and coaches to try and win some ball games.

 

It’s better than actual relegation. So there is that.

 

This has been building for years, but it seems like the Jazz were the straw that finally moved Adam Silver to act.

I love the change. Regular bottom feeders rarely morph into great teams because they hit the jackpot in the lottery and draft a generation player. Except for the Jazz, I think most teams start the season with good intentions but start tanking the last 3rd of the season because they don't have anything to play for except the lottery. Now, they will have fire burning their buns to escape finishing in the bottom 3.

If this revision fails, they can change it again.

 

Teams such as San Antonio, Charlotte, etc are on the upswing because they were bad and did well drafting when they had high picks.

OKC acquired many draft picks in recent years, but stayed bad because the league didn't force them to use the draft picks to make trades for Vets and try to improve ASAP. The same could be said for San Antonio.

Team such as Chicago and Sacramento kept trying to take shortcuts with Vets to compete in recent years instead of tanking and accomplished nothing of significance.


I understand the league not being happy with so many tanking teams this season, but some of those teams were going nowhere continuing to do what they had been doing.


In regards to Utah tanking, yes...............but Presti chose to immediately tank when he got the Seattle --> OKC position years ago and he did it again more recently. Presti shouldn't have been whining about the Jazz tanking considering that he has done it himself.

 

Relax, I think it has an expiry date....he will vote for another system when this one ends.

 

Well, both Utah and OKC never got the 1st Overall Pick in the history of the NBA.

Got a couple times close. I thought about Charlotte, Larry Johnson was the 1st Pick.....