J. Kyle Mann

I'm not sure what exactly will happen.

Passing any big, big change through the super majority of ownership that needs, let alone the players unit, is going to be hard.

But I want you to just have a thought experiment with me.

Okay.

OK, let's posit a couple.

Let's posit.

Number one, there will always be a draft.

Let's just posit that that abolishing the draft, despite how much you like the idea, is not on the table.

The small market teams will never vote for it.

Let's so let's just posit that there will always be a draft.

Let's also posit that there will always be bad teams in the NBA that no matter what mechanisms you pull to try to squeeze teams toward the middle, there are always going to be bad teams that need help.

Let's posit a third thing, which is, and I'm not convinced this is as true as it used to be, but let's just say it because this is what all the small market teams will say.

This is what all the small market teams said when lottery reform was initially on the table and the Thunder Rebellion occurred and all the Spurs tree people voted with them.

That small markets do not have access, the same access to superstars via free agency or trades, aka pre-agency.

And they need the draft as a tool to get superstars.

Whether the draft is an effective tool to get them superstars is another story.

But let's posit all those things.

And so all of that said, I would just put it to you like this.

How do you feel about a draft existing where the draft order is not tied at all to team record?

Where it is either... And it's not going to be tied to team record from best to worst either.