The reward is not as good as before. But as long as there's reward in losing, teams will keep tanking. Look at it from the teams' perspective. If they don't have any hope to make the playoffs, why not tank to get a better pick? The only way to stop tanking is to remove all reward for losing. But then teams that lose a franchise player would have little to rebuild.
? The lottery order is supposed to be announced tonight at 7pm on ESPN so that’s actually before the game.
Relegation has permanently solved this problem in soccer Race out of bottom is just as exciting as title race at the top, down to the last day But since they don't have any kind of amateur draft, I guess the tradeoff of more league-wide parity is worth the tanking incentive Sucks to know only ManC, Liverpool or Chelsea can win the Prem year after year
I have proposed relegation in the past. Severe links between NBA teams and g-league teams. Make the g-league a real B-level league. Exchange the two worst NBA teams and the two best g-league teams each year. Let the promoted g-league teams get the top 2 picks. It will never happen. Neither the owners nor the players will like it.
