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Basketball

Bluetus

(3,139 posts)

1. This is a ridiculous system.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Thu May 28, 2026, 04:52 PM

Thursday

The most equitable system would be one of fixed picks regardless of record, so that every team knows exactly which picks they will have for every future year. You simply rotate them. Every team gets one #1 pick every 30 years, one #30 pick every 30 years and likewise for all the other slots. That would completely eliminate all the incentives for tanking, and also not reward a mid-pack team with a #1 pick for no good reason.

Many people suspect the ping-pong system is rigged. This would eliminate all of that.

And if you want to give the weaker teams a parity boost, then give all the non-playoff teams an extra pick between the first and second rounds. Nobody is going to tank for the 37th pick, but some of those 31-40 picks will end up being star players. Just look at

Nikola Jokic
Manu Ginóbili
Draymond Green
Marc Gasol
Gilbert Arenas
Fred VanVleet

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