Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Time to Abolish the NBA Draft Lottery

I think it's time to change the NBA Draft Lottery, it's just not right that the 14th worst team in the league has a chance at the number 1 pick in the draft.  The goal should be to give the worse teams a chance to get better yet the worst team in the league has only won the lottery once (the Orlando Magic in 2004). The Nets this past year had a historically bad season and easily were the worst team in the league, there's no way that 2 other teams should be picking ahead of them.  Let's look at the Timberwolves too, they've now been in the lottery 13 times, they have never moved up to a higher position than they've been slotted for, they've never picked higher than 3rd overall, they've fallen from their slot 7 times (including this year where they were slotted at number 2 and fell to number 4).  Not a recipe to jump into the elite level of teams.  No other league that I know of use a lottery to determine the order of their draft.  How about going back to the team that has the worst record getting the first pick, second worst getting the second pick and so on?  Or how about just allowing the bottom 3-4 teams a chance at the number 1 pick?  Or how about having the lottery only determining the number 1 pick?  That way no team would fall 2 slots.  The Timberwolves fans has suffered enough, it's time to end this nonsense!

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