durantbird wrote:Snakebites wrote:I'll pitch this here- just so it can be workshopped where more people can see it:
Another twist on the modified core draft. The bare bones rules are the same as the previous draft, but with the following changes:
1) You can now pick players who have won a single championship with that franchise, but you still can't choose the season that they won. This should alleviate concerns about the 2008 Celtics being too powerful. This opens up the core options while still removing full on dynasties like the 90s Bulls, 00s Lakers and Spurs, and Splash Warriors.
2) No more than 2 All NBA First Teamers per ENTIRE TEAM.
3) The restriction on the wildcard is relaxed. You are now allowed to take any player who has never won an MVP. The important caveat is that you're still limited to two All NBA First Teamers per team, so if your core already has two of them you can't take another.
4) Per suggestion of others, you must start at least 3 players from your core.
Potential concern is that this does leave a couple of Lebron teams that could be selected. I'm not sure that's a non-starter. Cleveland Lebron would be forced to start alongside a couple of less-than desirable supporting pieces and the teams that lost to the Warriors weren't really THAT special. And the Lakers were kind of a mess outside of the one championship year.
Thoughts?
If I understand correctly, it adds LeBron's Cavs/Lakers, Giannis' Bucks, Jokic's Denver, Dirk's Dallas, and the modern Detroit Bad Boys, right?
Are all the four players required to play in the championship team? If they do, it kinda contradicts the ability to take no rings teams, unless they are handled differently in the rules.
Can I pick Spurs Kawhi without Parker/Manu/Duncan, or Miami Shaq without Wade?
Okay, one question at a time:
A) Yes it adds those players and their corresponding cores. You can't select them in the title season though. So no 16/20 Lebron, 21 Giannis, 23 Jokic etc.
B) No. All this does is allow players who won ONE championship with the core to be chosen, and not in those seasons. There is no stipulation that all 4 players be champions with that team. You could, for instance, take 2020 Jokic with Paul Milsap and Jerami Grant, even though those players weren't on the title team.
C) Yes. You could.