2025 draft thread: THE MAVS SELECT COOPER FLAGG

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The point is, it's a double-edged sword. Discouraging tanking which has mostly worked but simultaneously, hurting the chances of the worst teams ever improving. What if there's a bad team that's just bad and not trying to tank?  The new CBA makes it harder for even the good teams to stay good, trying to avoid the 2nd apron with its penalties. It's not really fair. The lottery needs to be tweaked again.

I've always kicked around the idea that if you get the #1 pick in a draft you shouldn't be allowed to get another top pick for x number of years.   You could do something like 5 or 10 years and the next year after landing the top pick, the highest you could earn is the number of years left on that rule.  So if the rule was 5, next year the top pick the Mavs could earn would be #5, the next year would be #4, and so on and so forth.  That has flaws of course depending on the strength of the class, but would prevent the type of luck we've seen from SAS.