OGs would call this “The Cavs Rule”.

They had Three #1 overall picks in 4 years

We got the Spurs, Jazz and Pacers Rule in here

Just need it one more time this draft, I promise

Wut? Rockets already had it and nobody seems to care

I don’t know why people go after spurs when bum ahh Houston was picking top 3 for 3 straight years lol, but they ended up with Jabari, Jalen green and reed sheppard…

Edit: TOP 4 PICKS FROM 2021-2024, so 4 years…..

It’ll be the OKC rule if it goes into effect next season with the amount of future picks they have over the next few years

Yeah honestly I don’t think people care that much about a single tanking year, and in fact fans seem to want it. It’s just the perpetually dogshit teams that cause a headache. If you whiff on your tank you should at least be forced into mediocrity for a bit.

I’d modify it a bit just because you can have two bad years in a row without deliberately tanking.

Second year in the top 4, you’re automatically moved to 4. Out of range for the top picks, but still can get a high caliber prospect. If there are more than one team that is a 2nd year team, it will go by win record for 3rd and 4th picks, but the odds to get the 1st pick will remain at the 4th place odds. Third year and all subsequent years until you break out of the top 4, then you can’t get a higher pick that 4.

2 out of 3 would be best imo. Team could easily pick a bust or just not be that good with a top-4 rookie and still need that extra top-4 to get out of the league’s basement with how much talent there is now.

Yes teams have started to use tanking to get enough draft assets for a 15 year championship window. Thats not really the spirit of the draft IMO. It’s for the next 1-4 years. But if 3 years of tanking gives you an 8 year window and 4 years of tanking gives you a 12 year window you do it every time.

You shouldn’t be able to stockpile so many draft picks like BOS and OKC have done. You shouldn’t be able to keep deferring those draft picks via trade for 10 years out.

Maybe after a pick is traded once you have to use it. This would stop the OKC and BOS from building war chest.

yeah if this does get implemented i wonder how other team’s picks are considered in this. the rockets got a 4th straight top 4 pick with the reed sheppard draft but that was a brooklyn pick not their own. The rockets didn’t do the tanking that year, do they still get the pick?

NHL doesn’t allow you to move up in the lottery multiple times in 5 years

I thought you could win it back to back, just not more than 2 times in 5 years.

That’s what’s gonna happen lol. Teams bust their ass to NOT be the worst in the 27’ class to go right back into tanking for 28’

Strategic tanking

they have a 30 rounds draft with over thousands of players. way different.

Yeah but they have a legitimate reasons for it. They didn’t plan to lose their star to a season long injury in the last game of the finals. So if this rule was in place are they supposed to just be fucked for an entire season because of this? Could argue they shouldn’t be this bad maybe but just seems like a really weird rule to add

What if the Raptors had fallen apart when Kawhi chose to leave them in free agency after 2019? Should they be punished if the team is legitimately worse for something that isn’t necessarily in their control?

0 chance this happens. We’re too small of a market to have this kind of “luck” from the NBA.

Just one more flattening pls bro I promise

I think the thought process is it they extend it to all play in teams with flattened odds that more teams would go for the play in, knowing that if they miss they have similar odds to teams that tanked. So it incentivisies teams to aim for the play in if they are not great

No, the purpose of the lottery has always been to discourage tanking. Before it was instituted in 1985, the draft order was literally determined by who had the worst record, which had been the case since 1948.

that’s what happens when teams abuse the lottery system by sitting healthy players lol

You know what sounds like a good idea? Let’s make all the projected first round players play a 1v1 tournament and whoever wins gets to choose which franchise to play for

That’s the point. The idea is that it makes teams stay mediocre forever, because that generally gets more interest than an extremely bad team.

All of the ideas proposed here are stupid.

$750K was peanuts to get Dereck Lively, hell, teams probably spend more than that to get a SRP with cash considerations.

The Jimmy Butler heat would have been a dynasty

We need to do something about pick protections too. I like the idea of only being able to protect top 4

Tim duncan to the Spurs.  Some of the greatest dynasties were built from this exact situation lol.  

Should’ve also happened with the Warriors but they picked Wiseman. 

Warriors did the same shit

Yeah, I get that’s what they meant, I was more just commenting on how it’s phrased. I was thinking about a team like OKC that is both really good and has other teams’ picks, if one hits they would still be able to draft in the top 4.

Ok cool so instead of teams tanking in February through April they’ll just tank from November through February, solves literally nothing

It just incentivizes losing games early in the season vs late in the season

isn’t this just gonna make teams super tank right at the start of the season instead

Well that’s on the league for flattening the lottery odds. They improved the odds of teams at the “bottom” of the lottery getting the top pick.

They are a much much better team than their record shows even without Hali

We literally just had a finals between two small market teams that didn’t build their team through the top of the draft

Free agency is already dead and you want the league to kill it even more?

It has been like this genuinely for 40 years.

You were not watching 2010 Nets games in February or 2013 Bobcats games in February, just like you’re not watching 2026 Jazz games in February.

Yall please get real.

I think it’s more Dallas got #1 the year after they made the finals and Indiana is in the running for a top 4 pick after losing in game 7

From my understanding I think it means your pick can’t be top 4 if you had made conference finals before like the pacers this year probably will be. Would be kinda weird tbh if it was just In general

We need a Risacher clause

We’ll see anti-tanking in bad draft years

Just a clause that says “this rule will be ignored if the pick is a player that sucks monkey ass”

Then you get 5th overall the next year. At a certain point you just gotta hit on your picks.

Not true at all. Big markets run by buffoon front offices have been getting bailed out by big stars. Like the Lakers being gifted LeBron in free agency in 2018. They did a terrible job drafting players (passed on both Jaylen Brown and Tatum in consecutive drafts), only to get bailed out by LeBron joining and AD forcing a trade there.

That situation would NEVER happen for a team like the Pacers or Jazz.

Now that you’ve put it this way, lots of NBA rules are just there to retain stupid but rich owners. “We are making this as easy as possible for you so please don’t sell the team”

I just did the math and the Blazers have been in the conference finals 7 times in the past 55 years, for an average of once every 7.85 years. Amazingly close to the expected average, all things equal