David Stern mulls ditching Draft Lottery for Draft Playoff
Conspiracy theory runs wild in the NBA.
The root? Simple.
When two players collide in the paint, the official must do one of three things.
1. Call a defensive blocking foul
2. Call an offensive charging foul
3. Make no call.
If you are a fan, 2 of these 3 are going to make you see bias. And nothing resonates with fans more than a sense of unfairness. As a result of the charge-block-no call conundrum, everything else in the NBA loses credibility.
Which brings us to conspiracy theory surrounding the draft lottery.
Stories float around about frozen envelopes, loaded balls, bribery, misappropriation, redistricting, foot rape, cow mutilations, etc.
ESPN’s Dan Patrick had David Stern on The Dan Patrick Show on Thursday, and at 1:51 EST, Patrick tossed around ideas on how to fix this piece of percieved NBA unfairness.
On the lottery
STERN: There is really no good answer. In a perfect world, you would distribute the picks precisely with a teams record with the worst team getting the first pick.
On Dan Patrick’s notion to stage a playoff system for non-playoff teams, the winner of which gets the No. 1 pick, second place gets No. 2, and so on.
STERN: (extended pause) I knew if i stayed here long enough you’d have a good idea. We could also take the (conference runners-up) and take them around the world to play for third place. We could also adopt the European system and have the worst teams (demoted to a minor league).
So there it is.
Solved.
Now all we need is an Etch-A-Sketch portrait of LeBron James,
and the league is complete. (took 5 hours)
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