In football, the team that finishes the regular season with the worst record gets the first overall pick in the upcoming draft.
Same with hockey. Same with baseball.
Why does the NBA thin
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David Stern finds it necessary to continue the tradition of the NBA Draft lottery – one of the worst traditions in professional sports – which was proven again tonight, as the Chicago Bulls (33-49, which isn’t even that bad in the East) defied less than 50:1 odds to win next month’s draft’s No. 1 selection, a pick with which the Miami Heat – who finished an abysmal 15-67 – should have been “rewarded,” just like their city-mates, the Dolphins, were last month.
Instead, Dwyane Wade and Co. had a 25 percent chance at landing numero uno – who should be
I understand why the lottery exists. It’s not a moneymaking scheme, because no one watches it on TV. It’s in place to keep teams from throwing games at the end of the season. Fair enough, however I don’t think that that’s a problem in the NFL, so I don’t see why the NBA thinks anything will be different for itself.
A bigger problem that has lingered in the NBA over the past decade has been the East-West talent gap, as the West has been the far superior conference for quite some time now.
What makes the NFL so great is the parody, much of which is generated by giving the worst teams the earliest draft picks in the subsequent draft. The NBA Draft lottery is only disallowing the worst teams from bettering themselves and ultimately competing with the elites in the future.
The team with the worst record has only won the lottery three times in its 19-year existence. Now, the Bulls have a chance to add to an already deep, talented roster that merely underachieved this season.
That shouldn’t be.
If the NBA were smart, it would get rid of the lottery in order to create more parody, something it’s been lacking in the recent past.
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