FUTURE DRAFT GAMES THREAD - 2/9/2025

[Laimbeer]

Probably done it, but you cannot select a player in a season with a team if he ever won a title with that team. For example, you could take Durant on any OKC season but no GSW season since he won a title with GSW.

[durantbird]

Probably done it, but you cannot select a player in a season with a team if he ever won a title with that team. For example, you could take Durant on any OKC season but no GSW season since he won a title with GSW.

I think we didn't do it.

Cool concept, downside would be it might feel similar to older ideas like No First Club Rings (pool would be similar)

[durantbird]

An idea that fits a small number of participants: Finalists who were 3rd seed or less

According to ChatGPT, this is the list since 1990:

1990 Portland Trail Blazers, 1991 Los Angeles Lakers, 1995 Houston Rockets, 1999 New York Knicks, 2004 Detroit Pistons, 2006 Dallas Mavericks, 2007 San Antonio Spurs, 2009 Orlando Magic, 2010 Boston Celtics, 2011 Dallas Mavericks, 2018 Cleveland Cavaliers, 2020 Miami Heat, 2021 Milwaukee Bucks, 2022 Golden State Warriors, 2023 Miami Heat, 2024 Dallas Mavericks, 2025 Indiana Pacers

We'll use these years only

I think this idea had potential. We can use any guy who played on those teams (without 50% games on the team requirement), so it adds some guys like 2020 Crowder, 2018 George Hill or 2021 PJ Tucker.

I was also missing 2002 Los Angeles Lakers

Since this is a limited pool, we can expand it to 60s and on, and add:

1969 Boston Celtics, 1976 Phoenix Suns, 1977 Portland Trail Blazers, 1978 Seattle SuperSonics, 1978 Washington Bullets, 1980 Philadelphia 76ers, 1981 Houston Rockets, 1982 Philadelphia 76ers

[Dr Positivity]

Anyone who played for SAS/DAL/HOU like the SoCal draft?