Ed Snider had the following to say about the NBA Draft Lottery:
"There should be just one Ping-Pong ball per team," Snider said. "Teams should not be rewarded for being inept."
You're right Ed. Instead of trying to improve teams that are currently not competitive, let's help out the teams that aren't good enough to make the playoffs, but yet not bad enough to have a chance in the current lottery system.
This obviously has nothing to do with the fact that the Sixers are looking at a few years of being in the 10-14 position in the lottery does it? If a team like Charlotte or Memphis drafts at #4 or worse every year, it is unlikely that they will get better. If teams in these small markets don't get better, their attendance will drop and the team will eventually have to move.
If they are going to change the lottery, I would recommend grouping the teams into four "slots". The teams with the worst, second worst, and third worst records are grouped together have the same chance of winning the lottery, teams 4-6 have the same chance which is less than teams 1-3, etc. This way the only dumping that teams do is between "tiers" and it doesn't give teams as much incentive to drop games.
This obviously has nothing to do with the fact that the Sixers are looking at a few years of being in the 10-14 position in the lottery does it? If a team like Charlotte or Memphis drafts at #4 or worse every year, it is unlikely that they will get better. If teams in these small markets don't get better, their attendance will drop and the team will eventually have to move.
If they are going to change the lottery, I would recommend grouping the teams into four "slots". The teams with the worst, second worst, and third worst records are grouped together have the same chance of winning the lottery, teams 4-6 have the same chance which is less than teams 1-3, etc. This way the only dumping that teams do is between "tiers" and it doesn't give teams as much incentive to drop games.
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