John Hollinger

But I'm ready to live there.

Yeah, the NBA is Lake Wobegon right now.

where everyone who's trying is above average.

There were 19 teams with winning records this year.

That should be impossible.

And it was possible because the 11 teams that were under were so bad, like winning between 30 and 40 games is basically a sucker's bet.

And you've seen very few teams end up in that golden state accidentally ended up there this year, but you see very few teams end up between 30 and 40 wins because they reach a point where they realize they're going to end up there.

And then they,

you know, pull the ripcord and knock themselves down in the standings like Memphis did this year.

And so that's going to end and that will be a really welcome thing.

You can jump in there, right?

Utah could easily end up in the play-in, be a two-ball team, and then have a decent chance of ending up in the top five, yeah.

I don't understand why you couldn't grandfather in the picks that were already traded.

Right.

That seems like the easiest thing to do, because I mean, like if Brooklyn had won the lottery this year, that would have affected Houston next year, not Brooklyn.

And there are chances that those Phoenix picks Houston owns will be impacted by this down the line.

The real design of the rule is to stop the Spurs from getting Castle, Wimbinyama, and Harper in three straight drafts, right?

And the number one rule is designed to stop what happened in Cleveland a decade ago.

And that's fine.

But when it's a different team that already has control of the pick, I think you can use some common sense and grandfather that one in.