Zach Lowe

So there's different ways to do it.

But here's my thing.

You can't, out of both sides of your mouth, whine about, oh my God, this makes it so much harder for bad teams, and also whine about how tanking is out of control and a scourge on the league.

If you want to solve the tanking problem, you're going to have to.

Yeah.

chip away at the reverse order draft.

You can't have it both ways.

And so I see all this whining about, well, teams are going to be trapped and how are bad teams go?

Well, too bad.

Like you run this, you teams, a lot of you brought this and this is a way to solve a more urgent problem.

The other.

And lastly, there's merit to this.

If it is indeed harder for some teams to get access to superstar draft prospects and

then I think there are other things you can do in the CBA to give them better access to superstar or star-level NBA players.

Namely, let's talk about eliminating restricted free agency so that a really good fourth-year player is not just trapped on his own team.

Maybe the Wizards have cap room this summer that so-and-so becomes a free agent and they can actually use it to get that player.

There's a lot of discussions to be had

And that's why it's important for people to remember this solution is not permanent.

It's going to be revisited in a few years and maybe scrapped entirely.

We'll see.