02-17-2026, 09:39 PM
Bad teams would eat those loses without tanking though and you wouldn't cheapen the wins against those teams if everyone was giving proper effort. In that ideal world, you'd just give thee 1st pick to the worst team and work your your way backwards from there. But we don't live in an ideal world. I'd argue that tanking isn't a good thing, but it is inevitable and whatever measures you put in place to discourage it, teams will find a way to work around it.
I do think when you have blatant stunts like Utah was pulling that you should just have them forfeit their pick, but I suppose that's a slippery slope on a judgement call from a commissioner. It would be pretty funny if they lost a pick though as they did end up winning several of those games.
I do think when you have blatant stunts like Utah was pulling that you should just have them forfeit their pick, but I suppose that's a slippery slope on a judgement call from a commissioner. It would be pretty funny if they lost a pick though as they did end up winning several of those games.