The Tankathon Thread (since that's apparently what this is now)

[pdxKingsFan]

Which is why you can trade the pick on draft night before you make your draft and still be eligible next season, even in bad draft years a middling team would be dying to trade something for a #1-#5 pick to have a cheap contract with elite potential.

It just seems idiotic to me to consistently help the bottom who are trying to basically sabotage their W-L while ignoring the middle/upper middle and eventually forcing them to go to the bottom destroying the quality of the product e.g (Hawks with Horford/Milsap/Korver/Carroll/Teauge or Portland with a squad of few years ago/Even current Dallas squad imo).

I have no problem with rewarding the teams that are trying, I've suggested a tournament to set draft order before. Not without problems but at least winning is encouraged.

 

[Warhawk]

Which is why you can trade the pick on draft night before you make your draft and still be eligible next season, even in bad draft years a middling team would be dying to trade something for a #1-#5 pick to have a cheap contract with elite potential.

It just seems idiotic to me to consistently help the bottom who are trying to basically sabotage their W-L while ignoring the middle/upper middle and eventually forcing them to go to the bottom destroying the quality of the product e.g (Hawks with Horford/Milsap/Korver/Carroll/Teauge or Portland with a squad of few years ago/Even current Dallas squad imo).

Except, depending on your number of picks you may have traded away already you may not be able to trade the pick until after you have drafted (at that point you are trading a player, not a future pick).

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