12-09-2025, 10:44 AM
(12-09-2025, 10:11 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: This isn't my preference, but if you do this you have to at least get to 8 so you can move to 7 and avoid OKC by winning the play-in game. Otherwise, give me the better lottery odds.
The incentives are just a mess in the NBA. They spread out the odds to reduce hard tanking, but now the team that loses the play in has a legit shot at high pick (as Mavs demonstrated) and most teams are probably better off losing. I'm not really sure what the point of the play in is. Half the teams were already making the playoffs and at least a third were tanking. I think its made things worse.