*fucks your league up*

*fucks your league up*

*removes ridiculous tanking*

Teams are still going to tank you realize? Just because they have a lower chance doesn't mean they'll stop because there is 0 point of being just average in a league with a draft

Yeah but now they're not going to be rewarded for it.

Yes, but they're still doing to do it. It just means the shit teams have a lower chance of getting better. If you were a team that had 0 chance of winning and no stars would you not tank? If you have no assets and play in a league with a draft then tanking is the only option

Wow, they are going to go from tanking to the worst team to tanking to the 3rd worst team.

When are they just gonna find a way to get rid of the draft?
Why do they need it anyways?

Doesn't matter, there's no incentive to tank from the 7th position on because the chance difference is negligible.

Even as the 3rd worst team it's not really that great a chance.
7/50 chance when there are 30 teams is laughable.

You're missing the point. The incentive is that we need to be as bad as possible to get a good pick. Teams will still do that

What's the point of tanking when you're not really getting that good a chance to get a good pick anyway? Removing the incentive to tank just makes it less of a goal to achieve.

But it's the only goal that matters. It's not like in football where you have academies. A #1 draft pick could mean the difference between winning 5 titles or never reaching the playoffs. Rather than saying "whats the reward of tanking now" ask yourself "whats the point of not tanking if I can't win a title"

>you're missing the point
It's cutting down the chances of the worst team getting the number one pick. There's no incentive to tank the the bottom if you're in the worst 4-5 teams.
Once you're in that bracket it also makes it much harder to try to manipulate the system because you're competing with 7 other teams to be bad.

Draft should be abolished. NBA teams shouldn't up youth camps instead of trusting colleges to develop players when the good ones only play for a year either way.

I think you don't understand. You see tanking as the first option (our goal is to try and tank) but that's not how it is. The first option is to win a title, tanking comes in response to not doing that. There is ZERO reason to win games if you can't win a title. This has no changed that and so tanking will continue

Yeah now instead of 3/4 teams tanking for the worst spot, there's going to be 8/10 teams trying to get into the bottom 3.

The lottery should have been abolished period. But I guess that would make it harder for (((them))) to gift the 1st overall pick to their preferred team.

>there is zero reaon to win games if you can't win the title

What a stupid notion.

they should have some sort of "draft playoffs" for the 8 worst teams, or something like that

If you can't win a title, and the league has a draft, give me one reason to win games with the end goal being to eventually win a title

a good team will more likely attract better players. See the Celtics, Rockets, Thunder, etc.

>the only countries that care about apehoop are australia and new zealand

>Spain
>Every Slav country
>China
>Brasil
>Argentina