JetNation Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Jeff Van Gundy says the NBA Draft lottery should be open to every franchise, to guard against teams tanking late in the season to get into it. In The Dish, Tony Mejia says: A) an open lottery is a really dumb idea and nobody's tanking anything. More... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 This should be fixed. Why should the team who loses the most get rewarded ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmike1 Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 He's right. Tanking games is a complete joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toon88 Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 He's right. Tanking games is a complete joke. which is why they put the lottery system into affect in the 1st place. and it's worked, I think I heard something like only 4 or 5 times has the team with the worst record gotten the 1st draft pick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny green balls Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 He's right. Tanking games is a complete joke. what's the difference? it's not like NBA players try until the playoffs anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmike1 Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 what's the difference? it's not like NBA players try until the playoffs anyway. Yeah but look at what the spurs did. They TRIED to lose games to get Tim Duncan and it's given them 3 Championships... In a league where one player can make such a difference teams are very tempted to tank games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toon88 Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Yeah but look at what the spurs did. They TRIED to lose games to get Tim Duncan and it's given them 3 Championships... In a league where one player can make such a difference teams are very tempted to tank games. the Celtics had the worst record that year and didn't get Duncan. Rick Pitino took the job planning on having Duncan to build around...how'd that work out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gainzo Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Yeah but look at what the spurs did. They TRIED to lose games to get Tim Duncan and it's given them 3 Championships... In a league where one player can make such a difference teams are very tempted to tank games. You have that wrong my friend. The Celtics tried to lose really bad that year and did. They had the most ping pong balls and the Spurs ended up with the 1st pick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmike1 Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 You have that wrong my friend. The Celtics tried to lose really bad that year and did. They had the most ping pong balls and the Spurs ended up with the 1st pick.They both tanked games that year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toon88 Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 They both tanked games that year. David Robinson got hurt early in the season I remember. Needless to say, come Feb & March, they didn't rush him back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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