Ideas to stop teams from tanking (post yours here)

[Dat2U]

Tanking is not the problem. I wouldn't do a thing to fix something that doesn't really need fixing. Incompetent GM'ing is the real problem. A soft cap is a real problem. This is just a media generated talking piece because of all the attention on this year's draft.

[penbeast0]

I've always liked this proposal fishercob, at least to some degree. And since the "pack" is generally pretty tight (and would be even tighter if everyone were trying to win instead of trying to tank), I don't think there would be nearly as many teams trying to lose because just making the playoffs has financial incentives of its own (particularly for the players!).

Also, a real bottom dweller, would have to build at least a supporting core to push it to mediocrity before getting that one superstar and might even be able to keep him instead of having 4 years then move to LA/NY/HOU/MIA though you could always get Brooklyn just missing the playoffs and Jabari Parker walking into that hot mess.

[Knighthonor]

I really, really, really wish the league would just do away with max contracts, let a team pay a player whatever they want, and put in a hard cap. I think it would level out so much of what's wrong with this league (Brook Lopez shouldn't be getting payed as much as Lebron James in salary). Big Markets won't be able to keep building super teams. You would never see a Miami situation again, and Small Markets would have legit chances at being players in free agency, instead of praying that they can fetch a miracle from the lottery.

This was what I wanted them to do in the last CBA. Oh well.

My solution to tanking: keep the draft lottery, but change it. Instead of giving extra weight to bad teams, give every non-playoff team one entry, AND give every team that loses a first round playoff series one entry. Have a random drawing for the 1st 22 slots in the draft.

Absolutely zero incentive for losing regular season games.

No one will tank a first round playoff series.

Totally agree on max contracts.

As to tanking, what about inverting the lottery process and thus flipping the incentive to lose into an incetive to win. The team with the most lottery balls is the non playoff team with the best record, and so on. You'd have to tweak it somehow -- because you'd have 7 and 8 seeds trying to miss the playoffs.

But this would eliminate tanking. You wouldn't have the sixers trading Hawes and Turner for nothing if their future depended on winning. It would also solve the buyout parade (if you view that as a problem) too.

That Idea smell like fish.

Its a bad idea, because the border line teams would win key talent and would either go to the play offs (which moves a playoff team back into this same position to get a top pick the next season), or that team gets a top pick the following season once again.

Bad teams would have no way to fix this issue unless they are a popular market like the Lakers or something.