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[QUOTE="Waltdods, post: 2329950, member: 2932"]
I agree with everything in your post but think this actually greatly underestimates how much just eliminating rfa would solve the "tanking problem". Unlike in the NFL where the value of rookies is largely the value of rookie contracts, in the NBA what you are shooting for is a superstar. Nobody is tanking to get a slightly above average player at a low price. They're tanking for a lottery ticket because you need a couple superstars to compete for a championship. But as you point out even the best players aren't superstars st 19. If all you're guaranteed for your lottery ticket is a player through his year 22 season that lottery ticket really ain't worth much.

If the sixers could lose embiid this year and Simmons next year the process wouldn't be looking like even the very qualified success it appears now.

Of course as you say the owners have no interest in giving up their control. But the solution isn't particularly hard. And a lottery with rfa would still avoid the situation where a golden state adds a number one pick or whatever.
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