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The Brooklyn Nets are one of the teams in the NBA that has been rebuilding over the past few years as the organization looks for its next group of franchise players. Brooklyn hasn't been alone in looking to the draft to improve their roster, but with the league cracking down on tanking the way that they are, there are some who believe the NBA is going too far.
"The most common concern from team executives polled by The Athletic at last week’s Draft combine event? That the new rules might swap one set of problems for another," NBA team executives said of the new anti-tanking proposal, per Sam Amick and Mike Vorkunov of The Athletic. Later this month, the NBA's board of governors is expected to vote on the new "3-2-1" format that will penalize the worst teams in the league moving forward.
"Potentially solving the tanking issue that commissioner Adam Silver has vowed to fix, while making it that much harder for the NBA’s worst teams to get out of the basement," the executives continued, per Amick and Vorkunov. "In the eyes of these executives — many of whom believe this is an overreaction to a problem that was largely inspired by the strength of this particular draft — that’s the irony of this approach."
If the proposed "3-2-1" format passes, the NBA Draft Lottery, starting with 2027, will give the teams with the three-worst records the same odds of getting the No. 1 pick as the teams that finished with the 11th to 16th-worst records. To put that in perspective, if this format were in effect for 2026, the Nets would have the same odds as the Phoenix Suns that finished with a 45-37 record on the way to being swept by the Oklahoma City Thunder in the first round of the playoffs.
Ultimately, it seems that NBA commissioner Adam Silver and the rest of the governors are intent on preventing teams like Brooklyn from looking to the draft to give them the talent they need to eventually be a competitor in the league. Even if the measure passes like many around the league are expecting, it could be comforting to know that some team executives believe that the anti-tanking measures are a bit much at this time.
This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: Is the NBA overreacting to rebuilding teams like the Nets?
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"The most common concern from team executives polled by The Athletic at last week’s Draft combine event? That the new rules might swap one set of problems for another," NBA team executives said of the new anti-tanking proposal, per Sam Amick and Mike Vorkunov of The Athletic. Later this month, the NBA's board of governors is expected to vote on the new "3-2-1" format that will penalize the worst teams in the league moving forward.
"Potentially solving the tanking issue that commissioner Adam Silver has vowed to fix, while making it that much harder for the NBA’s worst teams to get out of the basement," the executives continued, per Amick and Vorkunov. "In the eyes of these executives — many of whom believe this is an overreaction to a problem that was largely inspired by the strength of this particular draft — that’s the irony of this approach."
If the proposed "3-2-1" format passes, the NBA Draft Lottery, starting with 2027, will give the teams with the three-worst records the same odds of getting the No. 1 pick as the teams that finished with the 11th to 16th-worst records. To put that in perspective, if this format were in effect for 2026, the Nets would have the same odds as the Phoenix Suns that finished with a 45-37 record on the way to being swept by the Oklahoma City Thunder in the first round of the playoffs.
Ultimately, it seems that NBA commissioner Adam Silver and the rest of the governors are intent on preventing teams like Brooklyn from looking to the draft to give them the talent they need to eventually be a competitor in the league. Even if the measure passes like many around the league are expecting, it could be comforting to know that some team executives believe that the anti-tanking measures are a bit much at this time.
This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: Is the NBA overreacting to rebuilding teams like the Nets?
Continue reading...
