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Leaning in to the tanking concept instead of trying but failing to disincentivize it means the tanking teams get what they want faster and stop tanking sooner. So teams tank for less time, and fewer teams are doing it at the same time. All flattening the odds does is make it take more time to...

All 30 Team Owners are going to agree to a system that intentionally ensures that their team will never receive an expected superstar through the draft? I'm not ever going to believe in a conspiracy theory that says the owners are in on it. In addition to them you also have to rig the lottery...

This is why I don't trust AI with anything right now. (side story, I once saw a commercial I thought was kind of funny that talked about great shows having one-word titles and included "ER" in the mix. I tried to search for the commercial, and the AI overview came back saying something along...

Eh, I'll admit that I'm not digging too much deeper into this than just a google search on the number of TVs that are usually tuned in to their games. I still think all those things you say about SA having deep roots and an international fanbase happened because they got lucky and drafted...

Been a few pretty good ideas discussed in here recently I think. Removing lottery protections on the non-lottery winning picks would help some, at least with the jockeying that gets done at the higher picks, though I don't think that part is the worst part of tanking. It would have the side...

It always kind of surprises me when people use SA as an example of a market that makes the NBA a lot of money if they've got good players. They're like one of the smallest markets in the NBA aren't they? The Spurs dominant years (along with the Knicks decades of suckitude) are one of the...

I mean, I understood that what they were doing was necessary and the right thing for the future. It just wasn't any fun at all to watch. I don't feel like I'm watching the future because I think its really low odds for any given individual on the team that they are still on the team when we...

You know what I originally voted to lose because I want to keep our floor on our pick as high as possible. But I feel like there’s 4 guys in the draft and a minny pick would increase our odds of getting one of those guys by 3.6% and that’s enough for me. Yeah let’s win it.

Eh, fits something you look for when you are good. Jazz aren't building a team they're just existing until they fill out a couple all star potential players in rookie spots or have some amazing deal thrown in their laps. When that happens and they switch back to win mode, there will be a lot...

Perhaps misspoke and should have said “has a good chance”. Which yeah is probably something like 15%. Lot of things can happen. Think that’s about 5x better of a chance than the #2 pick. Rookie contract is 4 years, then in the last year you can give them a 5 year extension nobody else can...

Oh I agree that would be a pretty great team and we have the assets to eventually make that a championship calibur team. We'd need to trade some of our assets to bring in another piece or two to really get there though, and that deal might not be immediately available. SGA's contract, and us...

Yeah, Giannis is two years left on his deal and a player option. Jazz can't make that kind of deal unless they also somehow manage to wrangle enough other deals to make themselves an instant right now championship contender. I guess (again this is answering the hypothetical "What would it...

Depends a lot on who wins the lottery. From the Jazz perspective, if you're offered SGA, the 2nd, and a future first, yeah you say no. Because SGA only has 2 years left on his deal, and that's probably not enough time to build up enough of the rest of the roster to contend. You'll be better...

Yeah, if they were going to do a really big significant draft change, it would probably need to come alongside some other kind of balancing measure. Hard salary cap will probably always be a non-starter with the players union though. Doesn't really do enough on its own anyway. You need to...

Yeah, the thing that makes all of this so complicated is that it isn't a problem to be solved, its an optimization to be balanced. You can 'fix' tanking easily in a lot of ways. For example, you could reverse the odds in the draft so the best teams get the best picks. That'd completely remove...

Yeah, I've watched pretty much every game from the 97 season (first year my family got cable) till now, but haven't been able to bring myself to watch any games this year at all. I understand and don't necessarily disagree with the tanking efforts. When I watch I want to cheer them to win...

For reference https://www.tankathon.com/pick_odds

I don't really feel like you can trade Gay at this point. His contract has negative value. We already shipped off all the young guys with upside that we could have glued his contract to as salary matching filler. To ship him out, we will have to send out draft compensation attached. I don't...

I mean, there are two paths forward for the team right now. Either A) We continue to win, and exceeding the homery-est fans' wildest dreams , we are in serious playoff contention when the trade deadline comes around. At which point Ainge cashes in a bunch of those draft picks for a couple...

Wonder how long this will take to resolve. Seems like Ainge basically doing the "Michael Scott Paper Company" sell to Scott Perry. "I have what you want, a young superstar with a lot of years on his contract, who wants to be on your team long term. But you're about to roll into the season...