Exclusive Around the NBA: February, 2026! (6 Viewers)

[BigGameDamian]

 

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[SlyPokerDog]

They have footage of Bird's infamous left-hand-only shooting game against the Blazers.

 

[riverman]

Silver is considering getting rid of the NBA draft and making all rookies free agents to solve tanking.

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[UKRAINEFAN]

Silver is considering getting rid of the NBA draft and making all rookies free agents to solve tanking.

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Lakers would love that!

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

Silver is considering getting rid of the NBA draft and making all rookies free agents to solve tanking.

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If that happens its time to stop being a Blazers fan. We would never be able to compete.

 

[wizenheimer]

If that happens its time to stop being a Blazers fan. We would never be able to compete.

we agree on that. It's a dumb idea based upon a tanking problem that isn't much of a problem in the first place

 

[RR7]

I've tried kicking around the idea of the elimination of the draft, tied to each team getting different salary slots based on record. Wouldn't necessarily eliminate tanking, but being worst wouldn't immediately mean you get the best player, if they don't want to play there. I think there's hundreds of kinks to work out of it, but if you generically took the rookie scale, and applied it to each team. So worst team has 11.5 to spend on their 1st rounder, 2nd pick has 10.3, etc. Maybe you still have a lot to to see who gets the most money, but 11.5 doesn't guarantee you Flagg if he prefers, say, SA with the #2 slot, Philly with 3, etc. Teams trade $$ instead of picks.

 

[Chris Craig]

What you do is have the draft, but give everyone that didn't make the playoffs the same odds at getting the first pick. Then there is no need or incentive for tanking.