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Message: [QUOTE="Melancer46, post: 5429082, member: 1674"] If you believe the conspiracy theories (I do not...it's literally audited by Ernst and Young for gods sake), the NBA made a deal with Dallas that if they gave Luka to the league's premier franchise, they would give them Flagg. It's obviously stupid but given that they kinda sorta got caught rigging it way back in the day, people have clung to the idea that it's still happening. Re: the lottery system, it amuses me that many of the media members that fought for a decade to get the league to make this exact change are not complaining about how bad teams are getting screwed over now that the system has worked the way everyone knew it would. I know a single NBA star can impact games more than an individual star in any other sport and therefore teams are more likely to want to tank for that star, but I've always felt the lottery restructure was silly. Tanking feels almost more like a branding issue than anything else to me. Like do people think the Wizards were tanking this year, or did they simply move on from players like Bradley Beal and begin rebuilding around young, raw players? They even brought in veterans like Brogdon, Middleton, and Smart to help instill winning habits in the locker room; it's just not a good team right now. Nobody really complains when NFL teams blatantly set themselves up to be bad for a year that happens to have great QBs in the draft. Being bad sometimes is just part of the game and I don't think the league should have overreacted the way it did to curb that. This is very different from teams sitting healthy players out of course; THAT is something that needs to be curbed. The worst team in the league having a basically a 50% chance of picking in the top 4 is just ridiculous IMO. Not only does such a system not help to eradicate tanking, it actually increases it because lower teams feel like they have more of a chance to be rewarded for missing the playoffs (see Dallas tanking at the end of the year a couple years back to ultimately get Lively for example). [/QUOTE]

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