I think so. Makes bad teams try to win harder and just deal with lottery odds instead of tanking, everyone should try to win
No, and the NBA would never actually implement this
Just go to the wheel. It fixes most of the problems except a bad front office.
Here’s the thing this only works if the league would literally be willing to completely revamp the secondary league. The G League just wouldn’t cut it. First of all you couldn’t have second division teams having ownership connections to teams in the top division. At least not as much as there is now. Second of all there would have to be a significantly larger amount of money available for that League to build rosters.
Because as is any team going down from the NBA to the second division would be such Head and Shoulders above the competition that it wouldn’t even really be a demotion as much as it would be a one-year suspension because they would 100% come right back up the next year. If the idea is to punish teams who don’t invest wisely in development, and potentially reward those that do with promotion, the teams in the lower division would need to have some resources to begin that process. If G League teams had a big salary cap where they could start attempting to sign top tier youth players out of college, high school, or abroad it would add a lot more validity to the idea of them genuinely being able to compete with relegated NBA teams and earn promotion
I would fully welcome a promotion relegation type system but Adam Silver is ridiculous for thinking this kind of threat holds any weight. The amount of time and effort it would take to build something like that is momentous. Like we’re talking years. If he wants to punish hardcore tanking teams just start giving them draft collateral based punishments. That would very quickly put a halt to the whole thing. Because as is I’m sure not a single team actually takes this threat seriously, even if it would be a fascinating addition
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I think so. Makes bad teams try to win harder and just deal with lottery odds instead of tanking, everyone should try to win
No, and the NBA would never actually implement this
Just go to the wheel. It fixes most of the problems except a bad front office.
Here’s the thing this only works if the league would literally be willing to completely revamp the secondary league. The G League just wouldn’t cut it. First of all you couldn’t have second division teams having ownership connections to teams in the top division. At least not as much as there is now. Second of all there would have to be a significantly larger amount of money available for that League to build rosters.
Because as is any team going down from the NBA to the second division would be such Head and Shoulders above the competition that it wouldn’t even really be a demotion as much as it would be a one-year suspension because they would 100% come right back up the next year. If the idea is to punish teams who don’t invest wisely in development, and potentially reward those that do with promotion, the teams in the lower division would need to have some resources to begin that process. If G League teams had a big salary cap where they could start attempting to sign top tier youth players out of college, high school, or abroad it would add a lot more validity to the idea of them genuinely being able to compete with relegated NBA teams and earn promotion
I would fully welcome a promotion relegation type system but Adam Silver is ridiculous for thinking this kind of threat holds any weight. The amount of time and effort it would take to build something like that is momentous. Like we’re talking years. If he wants to punish hardcore tanking teams just start giving them draft collateral based punishments. That would very quickly put a halt to the whole thing. Because as is I’m sure not a single team actually takes this threat seriously, even if it would be a fascinating addition