Rockets propose to flip the NBA draft & free agency

[edit] n/m. just read Morey said start free agency earlier in June. Thought it was flipping the dates, such that draft is much later.

 

Smart idea. That way if you strike out on FA, you know what you need for the draft

 

Big NOTE: This is the way the NFL does it.

Lot of good scenarios addressed in that article. I'd recommend reading it before proposing critiques, as it addresses a lot. [btw: it says Boston's asst GM first suggested it.]

Here's a snap shot of the proposed new calendar:

It is unclear exactly how Houston's proposal would unfold. Rosas hopes to build a calendar not so different from today's version:

• free agency commencing in late June,
• the draft around July 10, and
• the start of summer league perhaps a week after that.

But that would push the NBA's calendar back by at least a week or 10 days, and some opponents of Houston's proposal fear an NBA in which urgent business persists well into August, sources say. Everyone needs vacation.

• The Rockets have addressed that by building in a two-week window stretching from August into September in which all transactions would be banned -- a new moratorium.

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Did ESPN have to use that dated, unflattering photo of Harden's old grill? Jesus Christ.

 

Big NOTE:
I see what you did there.

2 week moratorium:
lol. That is when Morey usually takes his vaca. If your proposing the rule change, might as well make it work for you.

 

I don't see how we could flip the draft for free agency straight up. At a minimum we would need to throw in a first-rounder or take a bad contract in return.

 

They're always trolling us man.

 

or, "What difference does it make. We never have a FRP anyhow?"

seriously though, my first instinct was that Morey keeps trying to make trades on draft night, and he's tired of hearing excuses from other GMs about wanting to wait for free agency.

One downside to this is the Stepien Rule. We can now use the 2019 pick in trade (purging Ryno for Lebron Opt-in-trade) *only* because the 2018 draft is over.

 

Morey you magnificent b*stard

 

It would increase the value of draft picks.

 

Imagine what the Cleveland Cavaliers might have done with the No. 8 pick in last week's draft if they knew -- really knew -- whether LeBron James would return next season. With a commitment from James, maybe they would have been more aggressive dangling that pick for veteran help. If LeBron had already bolted, or informed the Cavs of plans to do so, they could have picked without even considering his wishes. (In this case, they likely would have selected Collin Sexton regardless.)

This is one kind of scenario the Houston Rockets envisioned in April, when they proposed at a league meeting that the NBA should start free agency at least a week -- and likely more -- before the draft. The Rockets are not the first team to contemplate that notion; Mike Zarren, Boston's assistant general manager, used his very first tweet as a plea to flip the order of the draft and free agency. (The concept is popular across Boston's brain trust; Zarren noted in his tweet that Austin Ainge, Boston's director of player personnel, sold him on the idea.) Other leagues, including the National Football League, schedule free agency first.

But Houston is the first NBA team to officially propose it, and the idea has gained some momentum -- including the support of a few prominent general managers, league sources say. The Rockets are now working with those supporters and the league office to construct a semi-specific calendar outlining how events would flow from free agency, to the draft, and through summer league.

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...n-rockets-proposal-flip-nba-draft-free-agency

 

I like it. It makes sense. The nfl does it.

 

Morey. OUR Executive of the Year.

 

Murray for commish!

 

It did cross my mind that Free Agency period should begin after the Finals and end before the Draft. Great Thing Morey said it, Top Free Agents should make up their during the season, in which team he wants to go to.

 

In 2013, Dallas famously traded down and out of a chance at Giannis Antetokounmpo to pry open a teensy bit more space for Dwight Howard. Whoops. (Mark Cuban has admitted the front office wanted to pick Antetokounmpo, and that he overruled them.)