I have it (after many trials and errors): the solution to parity is here!

The solution is:

1. get rid of the draft
2. get rid of the salary cap (teams have double the salary of other teams, if they want)
3. get rid of contract restrictions (a player can be signed for 10 years, if a team want to do it)

4. have a blind auction for players to highest bidder.

If a team wants to blow 32 million a year on Lonzo Ball for 9 years, let them. It's the idea that we are going to let owners implode.

Not having a draft has other benefits as well. Teams can actually cherry pick players that fit their style. One of the big problems with the draft is that there might be a perfect player for your system, but you never get to draft him because you have to pick in order of win loss record. In this scenario, teams can build a strategy more effectively to combat super teams more than before.

This also addresses tanking and it even addresses college kids that want to 1 and done. Because after they see how maybe 15 players get big deals and the rest get minimum contracts, they will be incentivized to stay in school.

If a team doesn't want to participate in draft they can save their money for free agency.

I believe ultimately that this is the best system that the nba could go to. Mainly because if you try to create rules to defeat super teams, it just creates a math problem to be solved and then exploited.

This way, the teams that can evaluate talent and be responsible will have a chance regardless of market against the lebrons of the world.

 

Not really.

But I did think about this. If a college player with eligibility left doesn't get a bid, he can go back to college. He can do this once.

I think that if you make yourself eligible for the auction, then you have to be willing to play for anybody.

 

Blind bids, doesn't mean unknown players. It means you don't know what other teams bid for the player you are biding on so you have to make a bid that is high enough to win, if you are bidding on Ball, it has to be better than what other teams bid on him: ie blind bid. Your best offer first.

 

Also, you know what Harden is TODAY, but are you willing to gamble 50 million on an unproven rookie? Also, even Cuban isn't dumb enough to pay 2.5 billion dollars to 5 players, even if it was known.

The idea is that sure you can build a super team, but you might also be saddled with 250 million dollar Greg Oden, or Nerlens Noel.

Not only that, but other teams might get Klay Thompson for 30 million for 6 years, a bargin. The point being, now teams that have better front offices and do it better can beat a super team at their own game.

 

Your idea wouldn't work. Capping bids, would result in the same situation as we have now.

Also, this is not YOUR idea. It was discussed throughout the league last year and the year before as a way to counteract tanking, or did you forget about that?

The key to my idea is no salary cap and no rules to contracts. Some players wouldn't even get bids, in my version.

One of the biggest problems with super teams is free agency, it comes way too soon. It takes a player about 7 years to be championship ready. My version you can avoid that.

But again, I'm sorry if you are annoyed with my threads on this. But I am really trying to figure this out and I do believe that my system in this thread is better than the current system in the nba.

Also, your version promotes tanking and it is unnecessary. You don't need all of it. Just give teams the ability to get on an equal footing with super teams, and this does that.

 

Not really, you are bidding on players that are unknown. Everybody has a threshold, money-wise. The other thing is that the way that I am doing it, you at least give teams a fighting chance, because if you want 3 high level rookies in one year, but not LeBron level, you can get them.

Also with this, it is less likely that you can pair LeBron up with 2 other allstars. The biggest problem really isn't the salary cap, it is more a timing issue.

If you draft LeBron, but you miss on other players, you can't go to free agency and get Kyrie and Love, in their prime. You'd have to get say Deangelo Williams, as a rookie.

When the Celtics created the big 3, it was a timing problem with the rest of the league, more than a trade problem. Coordinating 3 allstar level players to be on your team in their prime is much easier with the current free agency.

 

The reason I've started new threads is because the other ones weren't good. So I kept thinking about it. If I had started 3 threads that were the same thing but with one change I could see how that would be bad. This thread is completely a different take on it than the others have been. But you will be happy to know that I think I am done with them after this.

This version is the best version. And it can't be improved. So this will be my official take on the way to combat the super teams, and parity and not the others.