Spurs got to build their superteam picking top 5 3 years in a row, now fuck everyone else

That’s good. That way teams like the spurs can’t abuse the lottery and get top 5 picks 3 years in a row

How does this work with picks other teams don’t own

Let’s say the Jazz get the first pick this season. The Grizzlies own the Jazz pick in 2027. Do the Grizzlies keep it if that Jazz pick is the first overall pick, or does Memphis get the 2nd pick because a Jazz pick got the number 1 pick in 2026

Or let’s say the Jazz get a top 5 pick this year, and they had Ace last year. Do the Grizzlies keep the 2027 pick from Utah if it lands in the top 5 because the Jazz had a top 5 pick in 2025, and 2026, and that pick the Grizzlies own is a Jazz pick

Let’s say the Cavs suck in 2028, and get the first pick, the Jazz can swap that pick and get the first pick

Then in 2029 the Jazz win the lottery with the 15th pick ball, and they luck into the first pick, but that goes to Utah, do the Jazz keep the first pick in 2029, because the first pick was from a swap from Cleveland, or do the Jazz lose the 2029 pick as its the first pick from Utah

Would the Jazz be able to keep the 2029 pick as the 2028 pick Cleveland’s pick that Utah swapped with, or do they lose it because they drafted with the first pick (from Cleveland swap), and 2029 (from Utahs own pick). What happens to that pick, does it drop to the 6th pick by default in 2029?

Good ideas in isolation. Can’t tank out of the play-in, can’t “farm” top picks forever or get lucky over and over. That’s all that is needed. That’s all that was ever needed.

Of course they would take one step forward and about a dozen back…

This is the best rule change and the one that makes the most sense imo

Probably the only sensible one they’ve made, especially considering MLB already has this in place for their draft

Acting like draft luck begins and ends at lottery position is fucking stupid. Winning the Wemby lottery and winning the Sarr lottery is not remotely the same thing

Man, all these specific rules and clauses.

You’re going to need a PhD just to know your team’s draft status. lol

Spurs fans will use that castle trade as a shield. The thing that matters is they got the single best draft prospect since LeBron and then got a number 2 draft pick that’s would’ve been a 1 in multiple other years and jumped like 9 spots or some shit

adam silver is like that dev that takes nerfing too far then the champ becomes unplayable. lol

This rule would be fine, without the other bullshit one they just imposed.

As bad as tanking may be, it’s beyond ridiculous to give 9 and 10 seeds the same odds for the first overall as the worst three teams in the league. The 9 and 10 GET TO PLAY IN THE PLAYOFFS. What a joke.

The anti-Spurs model.

This is the only thing they’ve added that’s positive. The 18 team shit is ridiculous.

Spurs got on the last chopper out of Saigon

Convoluted and dumb as all hell

Surely a team hasn’t fucked up back to back 1.1’s no? Right?

This is great. Spurs got lucky as fuck, but better to fix it now than later.

A bit of a tangent, but how do the league and organizations keep track of all this? I imagine there’s probably some sort of centralized record keeping, but just curious what it’s like in practice.

Wouldn’t it make more sense to just prevent teams from getting consecutive top-5 (or top whatever number u think is better) picks while keeping the old lottery odds? At least I think it would…

It allows bad teams to get top talents, make them value their top picks more and draft carefully (since they only got 1 shot anytime soon), but won’t let them “tank/be bad” for years straight.

They fixed this very quickly because it impacts the “integrity” of the game but they won’t do anything about traveling, foul baiting/flopping etc

I actually like the new rule

Is this team or pick? Like if you own another team’s pick

What if during a year with a bad draft class a team trades back from the #1 Pick, are they still ineligible to win the draft lottery the following year?

We literally just started tanking, Silver, you ass.

This is gonna be like when stop light cameras actually work & then some small town suddenly remembers they relied on speeding tickets for revenue & now they’re screwed. If this plan works, suddenly the worst teams are going to be getting routinely kicked while they’re down, and everyone’s gonna be looking around, asking why we thought this was a good idea.

Hey…this was my idea

Wow, they actually managed to land on a common sense reform.

Good rule

Can we apply this retroactively to the Spurs?

Lmao after the spurs win three top five picks and Wemby, sure

They should make them retroactive and force the Spurs to trade or unprotect a player in next expansion draft.