Before the Christmas holiday began in full earnest, TrillBroDude, SB Nation’s feed administrator, wrote a quick post for you all to chime in on.
The Feed post was inspired by a piece Shams Charania of ESPN wrote. NBA teams were discuss in various proposal to modify the draft. The lesser extremes included limiting “protected draft picks” when picks are traded to a more fundamental change where teams, no matter how bad, cannot pick in the Top 4 for consecutive years.
For the Washington Wizards, the current
rebuild is heavily centered around selecting multiple top picks in the draft. And that centers around losing a lot of games in the short run. Other teams have also rebuilt with this approach, especially the Philadelphia 76ers for much of the 2010s.
I don’t see the NBA implementing all of these ideas. But no matter how much the rules change, there will always be some teams looking to take advantage of the rules. And for the Wizards, the best way to improve long term is by losing most games in the short term in exchange for a potential opportunity to be a winner in the long term.
Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
