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Not to mention that in most other years Giannis would be the clear favorite for MVP.

It reminds me a little bit of a video game.

Yes. I strongly prefer a solution that removes any incentive to be bad, but since those ideas are not likely to ever gain traction, I'm considering alternatives, or in other words ideas that greatly reduce tanking, or at least the very worst forms of tanking like the Jazz executed this year...

I thought this was pretty cool. View: https://twitter.com/BrooksAD/status/1912981352506437912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

More ideas: Teams 1-5 all have equal odds at picks 1-5. Teams 6-10 get two draft picks in the top 15 (6-6,11 7-7,12, 8-8,13, 9-9,14, 10-10,15). The draft moves on from there with picks 16 to 35. All teams 11 and higher make the play-in. Teams that make the play in, but lose in the play in...

Also tie revenue sharing to a minimum number of games won.

Here's a thought, make teams ineligible to receive the top pick or top 3-4 picks if they already have an all NBA first team or maybe first or second team player.

Apologies. At the time I wasn't interested at all in any proposals dealing with changing the lottery odds. I went and relooked and have some thoughts. - I don't like any scenario where a top 10 team has a chance at a the top pick. So maybe if you squished things down to odds starting at...

I do think the solution is simple and easy to execute, I'm just not sure if it does enough. When teams are eliminated from the playoff/play in they will still want to maximize the value of their pick by being as bad as possible. There is still no real incentive to winning games for a large...

I'm not sure, but the lottery wasn't invented until the mid-late 80's so I don't think it has anything to do with the lottery.

So here's an outside the box way to potentially improve tanking. Allow 16 or 17 year olds to get drafted, but keep the rule that they can't play in the NBA until the year they turn 19. The benefit of tanking would be more risky and more delayed. It think this would discourage more teams...

OK, with a little thought this is what I'm thinking on trades: - Teams can trade their current cap space that other teams can use or save for future years. It only effects the team that trades the cap space for the year they trade it, but the team that acquires the cap space can use it...

I'm curious what people think about the following: Player Type vs Player Grade when setting up a big board. I think there are some player types that I value and frankly the NBA values more than others and how do you factor that in when the best player grades are for the least valuable player...

I appreciate the thoughtful response. I didn't say if the bid money would be the player's salary, because I'm not quite sure what the best way to handle that part would be. You could potentially just keep the salary scale the way it is today and the bid money just goes in to a pot that is paid...

The purpose of protections is to adjust for the value of a pick in a trade as well as protect the team against extremely bad outcomes. I think a top 4 protection is good enough to shield against extremely bad outcomes, and then teams can get creative on leveling value. For example maybe a...

The most egregious tanking that the league should care the most about is a team losing in the play in on purpose, so I think if you are limiting what protections can be placed, the lottery protected is probably the most important to remove.

I just went back and looked at Flip's college stats and I didn't realize he was such a high stocks guy. You might be right.

In order of preference for proposals I think the Wheel + Hard Cap + No Max Contracts would be my first preference since every team would be incentivized to be as good as possible every year. Also, trading for draft picks would be extremely straight forward. I don't like the idea without the...

I was waiting for some criticism of this idea, but I'll go ahead and throw it out there myself. The risk would be that when a generational prospect would come around that everyone would create as much cap space as possible, which would really cause some chaos. The other thing people might...

About half way through now and as a discussion point I don't agree on Flip as the guy we keep if we can only keep one young guy. I assume that Kessler is not part of this discussion? As good as Flip has been I just don't know if he'll ever be a starting level guy on a good team because of his...