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Originally Posted by Funkhouser
You are right.
I read on the Athletic that neither San Jose or Chicago picks counted as lottery wins last year as they were already in those positions.
I would like to see them change the draft rules to punish incompetence/tanking...
-you can't pick in the top 3 more than twice in 5 years
-you can't pick in the top 5 more than three times in 5 years
-you can't pick in the top 10 more than 4 times in 5 years (or something along those lines)
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Draft won't ever be perfect, and the league has already made a number of changes that are good enough.
Personally, outside of the generational talent drafts, I don't see any teams intentionally "tanking/rebuilding" for more than a few years... although some end up being crappy for a decade (Buffalo/Edmonton/Phoenix) but that is more about bad ownership/management rather than intentional tanking.
The league, and the majority of owners, are far more incentivized to address poorly managed teams through backchannels because the existing CBA and revenue sharing. It's why finally Phoenix lost that team and any new ownership is heavily vetted by the existing group.
As much as I'd like Calgary to win the lottery and draft first overall (or even top 3) sometime, league parity is way more important to me--and I'd rather see crappy teams have shots at higher end players and the league deal with bad management behind the scenes.