Is it "fair" if Cleveland wins the lottery again?

[Kblaze8855]

The solution is to make it easier for small market teams to hang on to their star players and to implement a hard cap

Thats a "solution" like abstinence is the solution to teen pregnancy. ITs totally unrealistic so not worth talking about. There will never be a hard cap in the NBA without a lockout so long owners lose billions on the next tv deal and they care more about that than Portland winning a title.

Changing draft rules is actually realistic...and happening right now. Draft rule talk is about an issue with a realistic non fairy tale solution.

The whole hard cap thing is just a bunch of nothing.

[tamaraw08]

That would be four #1 overall picks in less than 10 years.

Not to mention LeBron's pick.

Technically they did nothing wrong...but it seems off.

Imagine another situation where a team that has a superstar and competes for 10 years, star leaves/retires and they predictably stink the next couple of years and win the lottery and get the #1 pick, turns out to be another generational star. Basically Cleveland's situation with LeBron leaving again.

Almost like when the Spurs lucked into Robinson/Duncan.

Or even Orlando with the 1992 and 1993 drafts.

I've mentioned lottery reform should be that teams are limited in the number of top 3 and top 5 picks they can get in a 5 year span, well add to that they should be limited in #1 overall picks too(maybe 2 in any given 10 year span).

Yes for me because it's not their fault their main superstar left and Love got injured,
What is unfair is for Phoenix again to get a top 3 pick.
They have been tanking the past 4-5 years now, Never spent money on free-agency except for a role player like Ariza.
They keep getting rookie coaches and pay them peanuts. A repeated tanker like them should be not be allowed to pick the in the top 3.

[eliteballer]

Bump.

[PickernRoller]

NO. I think the league catered to him enough when he cried about the Pau/CP3 deal back in 2012.

[Draz]

When I run it the knicks come out #1 every time on the sim

[bigkingsfan]

Not all #1 picks are the same. So yes, I hope they win it now.

[jbryan1984]

That's like saying is it fair if GSW win the finals again? If you have a poor record, you have every right to win the #1 pick.