[Charania] The NBA presented three comprehensive anti-tanking concepts to its Board of Governors on Wednesday, with modifications expected to each before a formal vote in May, per ESPN sources.

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  1. If this is truly our last year of tanking for the foreseeable future, this might end up being a positive for us. For the sake of shitty teams though, these changes are absolutely terrible and will only force bad teams to stay bad for longer.

  2. Interesting proposals, but I don’t think it gets to crux of the issue. There should not be, at any level of sport, an incentive for losing games.

  3. Adam Silver is just horrible at his job. How does Flattening the odds even further and increasing the amount of teams in the lottery help bad teams? Imagine if teams like the Wolves and Pistons had even smaller of a chance to get Ant or Cade, instead they went to some big market team that lost in the first round of the playoffs like the Lakers. Dallas getting Flagg type scenarios will just become more likely and prevalent. They already destroyed free agency. Bad, small market teams will just be perma-bad.

    Luckily we aren’t tanking after this season so it doesn’t affect us too much in that regard, but some of these suggestions have potential to devalue future draft picks which isn’t good for us.

  4. So dumb imo, either get rid of the play in or make all play in teams not in the lottery imo

  6. If the changes mean the “rich” franchises get “richer” and the “poor” franchises get “poorer,” as it has since they first started flattening the odds (see San Antonio for just one example), it will ultimately prove disastrous for the league.

  10. “Hmm we flattened the odds and tanking got worse, maybe we should flatten the odds even more!”

  11. Also tanking is rampant this year and last because of what are supposed to be historically great draft classes. Teams weren’t tanking the year the Hawks got the top pick. So we could easily go too far to counter a problem that is a symptom of great draft classes and the strategical edge to building around a cost controlled young star with the current restrictive CBA system.

  12. These are all awful. First of all, get rid of the Play In. Either expand the playoffs or get rid of it. It’s a stupid concept. 

    We need a lottery system that is weighted by how much you play a  healthy roster. Take the number of games started by full roster or starters. Factor in games where a team benches their starters in the 3rd or 4th quarter for no reason.

    Teams can move up in the lottery % for playing their starters more games than a team that day benches their starters.

    Example, Brooklyn starts their starting roster 95% of the  season but finished 6th worst odds. Because they played their starters more than say the 3rd place team you move their percentage of winning the lottery up by 2-5%

  13. I like the idea of a win total floor. any team with below 25 wins gets the same odds, and then gradually increase it after that. feel like this would fix the tanking at the bottom while still preserving a bit of parity

    the Nets at 17 wins rn would have no incentive to lose

  14. These do nothing.

    I miss David Stern.

    Stern always understood he was the steward of the GAME. His job was to protect it’s image and integrity. Adam Silver’s priority seems to be making the owners happy – over the players, over the fans, over the game itself.

    I guess that was to be expected once the money got crazy, but this is why the commissioner needs to be someone with some balls.

  15. Don’t know why people are complaining. Tankjng is an issue and will probably always be but good on Silver to try and curb it someone.

    Cant have teams have 3-5 years where they are not trying and just collecting top picks year after year.

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