I hope they shorten the 2020-2021 season and start it later than December. Otherwise, there could be a lot of excess injury potential for players that were in the playoffs. GS is very lucky- with all our injured players, everything is coming up roses as far as rest time. Seems the opposite for any teams that are in this season’s playoffs.
Does anyone else wish the NBA would have Draft order tournaments for the bottom 12 as well? I don’t care if if costs the Warriors pick positions I would love to see the NBA get rid of the lottery and have a pick order tournament where every team plays for a pick. So many options to be able to get creative. How about, Bottom 8 in a single elimination tournament seeded 1v2, & 3v4 in one pod and 5v6 and 7v8 in the other, a full series for picks 9 & 11?
An NCAA baseball style double elimination Tournament?
What would you be up to watch for teams playing for picks?
I wish that all NBA franchises were publicly owned corporations, the league itself being a non-profit, where every team remits 1/2 their total revenue to the league and the league remits 1/30th share after expenses to each team. Then if a team really wants to offer a 5 year, $200m contract to an 18 year old player, they should go for it. Good luck getting the owners of the Knicks, Nets, Lakers, Clippers, Bulls, and lately, the Warriors, to go for this scheme, but if the league really wanted "competitive balance" that's the way to do instead of complicated salary cap and draft schemes.
Exactly! When Zeke started messing around with the future D-league I had the smallest sliver of hope it might allow the league to use relegation as a threat against the Clippers under Sterling.
I hope they shorten the 2020-2021 season and start it later than December. Otherwise, there could be a lot of excess injury potential for players that were in the playoffs. GS is very lucky- with all our injured players, everything is coming up roses as far as rest time. Seems the opposite for any teams that are in this season’s playoffs.
Does anyone else wish the NBA would have Draft order tournaments for the bottom 12 as well? I don’t care if if costs the Warriors pick positions I would love to see the NBA get rid of the lottery and have a pick order tournament where every team plays for a pick. So many options to be able to get creative. How about, Bottom 8 in a single elimination tournament seeded 1v2, & 3v4 in one pod and 5v6 and 7v8 in the other, a full series for picks 9 & 11?
An NCAA baseball style double elimination Tournament?
What would you be up to watch for teams playing for picks?
I wish that all NBA franchises were publicly owned corporations, the league itself being a non-profit, where every team remits 1/2 their total revenue to the league and the league remits 1/30th share after expenses to each team. Then if a team really wants to offer a 5 year, $200m contract to an 18 year old player, they should go for it. Good luck getting the owners of the Knicks, Nets, Lakers, Clippers, Bulls, and lately, the Warriors, to go for this scheme, but if the league really wanted "competitive balance" that's the way to do instead of complicated salary cap and draft schemes.
Mostly I wish the NBA had relegation, but play for picks might do the job.
Is relegation like where they'd send a team down to the D League?
Exactly! When Zeke started messing around with the future D-league I had the smallest sliver of hope it might allow the league to use relegation as a threat against the Clippers under Sterling.