Help me explain to my 7 year old Kid why NBA rewards Losing with Draft Picks

[Richard4444]

The draft is easily explainable to a kid.

Every year, the worst students can call dibs on the best teachers and the best books of the school. They can more easily catch the other students' performance with caring, engaging, and patient teachers with master's degrees and new books from great authors.

The best students get lessons from janitors, plumbers, and mimes. They are given old books with some pages missing and a lot of fake news, with some chapters copied directly from Wikipedia and some chapters written in Latin.

The goal is to teach the best students that nobody loves know-it-all people and we never should try to stand out without being ready to face the consequences.

[Roddy B for 3]

The draft is easily explainable to a kid.

Every year, the worst students can call dibs on the best teachers and the best books of the school. They can more easily catch the other students' performance with caring, engaging, and patient teachers with master's degrees and new books from great authors.

The best students get lessons from janitors, plumbers, and mimes. They are given old books with some pages missing and a lot of fake news, with some chapters copied directly from Wikipedia and some chapters written in Latin.

The goal is to teach the best students that nobody loves know-it-all people and we never should try to stand out without being ready to face the consequences.

Or.. they wrote the rules of the draft into a CBA signed by all 30 owners and the NBAPA... Because it promoted compettive balance which is good for league revenue.

[bubonicphoniks]

It forces the good teams to be better with their personnel moves and individually to keep up.

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[monopoman]

This topic is probably a joke I have never seen a kid question every sports league operating this way nearly.

Here is a great example though how about if we took the rules of Monopoly and then on top of someone winning it they also got the following perks next game. These perks would stack so that if you won once you get one if you win twice in a row you get two of each...

The winning player starts the game with the following:
One property of their choice
$250 bonus starting money

So if someone won 4 games in a row they would start with such:
Four properties of their choice
$1000 bonus starting money

Doesn't sound like a Monopoly variant anyone would ever want to play does it that is essentially what giving the best teams the best pick entails. The draft rules make less sense when applied to things like grades or something, it makes perfect sense when applied to any number of games.