Gary Sutton

So that's fascinating in the sense of, okay, if you want a best chance at drafting a superstar –

If you're a team, Sean, that's trying to rebuild your roster through the draft, you need to get to the top of the draft because you need to draft in the first five if you want any reasonable shot of drafting a potential superstar.

So very few players who end up having outstanding careers are selected outside of the top five, very few.

Steph Curry was a seven pick.

And Tony Parker was drafted.

He had a great career with San Antonio.

He was drafted fairly late in the first round, if I remember correctly.

But those are the exceptions, not the rule.

So most future superstars are drafted in the top five.

That doesn't mean that every top five pick is a future superstar, but...

future superstars come from the very top of the draft.

Oh yeah, absolutely, absolutely.

So if you're a team that wants to rebuild your roster through the draft, you need to get to the top of the draft.

So how are you going to do that?

In today's system, even with the lottery, and the lottery's been out there for many years now, it's been tweaked a couple times, you need to have a woeful one-loss regular season record.

So it's not a truly competitive system where you're rewarded for success and vice versa.

You're rewarded by having a poor one-loss record.

Tanking, yeah.

Yeah.

So is there an incentive to tank?