would you watch an nba non playoff tourney for #1 pick

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To avoid tanking in the NBA (and also would generate revenue for teams) would you be interested in all non playoff teams in their own tournament playing in a best of 3 format to determine the #1 pick. It gives everyone at least some taste of post season ball and can be good filler when the playoffs start getting gaps between games. It also cuts into a lot of phantom injuries at end of year that keeps stars out. And mostly we will never have a tank or not to tank argument again. Everyone wins

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Wouldn't this theoretically put the 17th best team getting the #1 pick every year?

best of 3, no. best of 1, yes.

I thought about this a while back, but it's unrealistic when you really get down to it. My idea was to seed non-playoff teams in reverse order by record, and have a single-elimination tournament but not in the traditional bracket sense.

Game 1: #14 @ #13
Game 2: Game 1 winner @ #12
Game 3: Game 2 winner @ #11
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Game 13: Game 12 winner @ #1

Draft order goes in reverse order of elimination.



The problem with this, and with any tournament like this, is that you're asking players to compete in a tournament that will help their organizations replace them. It's ultimately a conflict of interest that I suspect the players' union would block and that the NBA wouldn't really jump at anyway.

They should do best out of three rock-paper-scissors.

Most fair way IMO.

I'd watch that.

I think the 17y seed would suffer a hangover effect much like bubble NCAA teams do in the not and would see the upset quite often

I can see that for the 17 seed sure.... but that still leaves 16 teams. Doubt 1 of the bottom 4 teams actually win. And lets say that 1 of the teams that barely misses the playoffs would be a team like with a lot of young talent, and they win the tourney. They get the opportunity to draft a stud, while the bad team would most likely be drafting after the lottery.

If you barely miss the playoffs, you are an average / good team. Especially if you barely miss the playoffs and youre conference is really good, like the West.

The draft is supposed to allow the bad teams the opportunity to get better by drafting 1 of the better prospects. Doing it by the tourney would allow an average / good team get the better prospect, and the bad teams stay bad by not being able to get bette players.

And i get what youre saying though about trying to prevent teams from tanking. But at the same time, the teams that are tanking are the teams that need the most help. And even when they try to win, they dont.

The bad teams would get worse, while the average / good teams get better. Doesnt make sense.

Also, wouldn't it just make the worst 2-3 teams perennial celler dwellers?

wtf did I just read?