9 hours ago
I like the idea we have a separate standings be kept for lottery purposes and that they only count the first half of the season or a little more towards the lottery. So the teams that are trying to lose at the end of the season will have zero advantage to purposely tank since those games wont count in the standings. It takes a special kind of loser to tank on purpose from the start of a season and I think fewer teams would tank this way because after the first half of the season the order of worst to first would be set in stone.
Late season injuries would be harder on teams to recover from since they could not decide to tank late in the season because the order would already be set. and start again next year but then a rule that you cannot be eligible for say the top 4 or 6 draft picks if you were in the conference finals the year before.
Late season injuries would be harder on teams to recover from since they could not decide to tank late in the season because the order would already be set. and start again next year but then a rule that you cannot be eligible for say the top 4 or 6 draft picks if you were in the conference finals the year before.