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Originally Posted by Igottago
System needs a complete overhaul, I don't know how that isn't totally apparent to everyone involved in the game.
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Because the draft does what it's supposed to do - funnel elite talent to the worst teams so those teams can become better in the future. Along with the salary cap, it's the primary mechanism to enforce parity in the league. And the league sees parity as in its collective financial interest.
Burke was actually complaining the other day that the system is unfair because a team that just failed to make the playoffs, like Arizona, might win. He thinks they should go back to a model where only the five worst teams are eligible for the lottery (but he also says if a team picks #1 OA it shouldn't be eligible to win the lottery again for three years).