Does the NBA Have a Tanking Problem? And Why the NBA Should Abolish the Draft Lottery
Description
So many NBA teams — the Jazz, the Raptors and more — are blatantly tanking. So is that a problem?
On a new episode of the Just Basketball show, Chris Manning and Wes Goldberg get into the NBA’s current tanking culture, examine different proposed solutions to fix tanking (include flattening lottery odds, better rule enforcement and more) before Wes makes the case that best solution is to just abolish the lottery altogether.
0:00 Can the NBA get anything from tennis
9:51 - Is this the worst tanking bit ever?
13:30 - Flatten lottery odds
26:03 - Count wins instead of losses after the All-Star break
28:13 - Reworking pick protections
30:55 Head to head records
33:49 Enforce the current rules (and abolishing the lottery altogether)
44:38 Tankathon sim
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