NBA Info - February 2026

[Deleterious]

 

[Deleterious]

So the three point contest was won by a guy who won't play a single minute this year. His final opponent was a guy shooting 31% from three this season.

[Deleterious]

 

[gehringer_2]

6 hours ago, Deleterious said:

 

nice to see someone in a high position decide not to deny the obvious.

[Tigeraholic1]

Embarrassingly bad.

 

[Tigeraholic1]

 

[Deleterious]

Has not been a good weekend for crowds.

 

[Deleterious]

I would bet my entire life savings, all $37, that never happens.

 

[ben9753]

19 hours ago, 1984Echoes said:

I think that's absolutely HORRENDOUS for the worst teams in the league. The team (insert name: ) is terrible, gets rid of all its unproductive vets in order to enact a rebuild, gets the worst record in 2026-27... and gets pick #14?

That's TERRIBLE!

I would never vote for that (if I had a vote). That's just truly ****ting on the teams who are genuinely trying to rebuild.

No thank you.

Zero interest in that scenario.

Here's an idea: don't suck. and they are just as likely to get the 1st pick as the 14th pick. I would be all for it. Don't reward incompetence, and don't rely on the draft to bail you out of being awful at your job. 

[Deleterious]

The flat lottery does zero to discourage tanking.  It simply moves it from the bottom of the standings to the middle.  Teams that finish 15th-22nd will tank to miss the playoffs and get an equally rated shot at the #1 pick, or moving up into the top 3-5.  I think this idea would actually encourage more teams to tank.

 

[gehringer_2]

to me, the objective evidence is that tanking has only gotten worse with the lottery because you are increasing the number of teams willing to take a gamble on the #1.  With a straight inverse order draft, you only had one or maybe two teams that vied for absolute worst, and since the difference in the value of a pick drops off pretty fast once you get past the 2nd or 3rd pick, I just don't see that many teams other than the very worst teams trying to move down. I think the evidence is the lottery has encouraged non-playoff teams to try to get worse because they might have a shot at a #1. Leave them facing the difference between a #5 and #8 and I think they keep playing, because before the lottery that is pretty much what happened. I would go back to no lottery, simple inverse order, and maybe a limit that you can't pick in the top three more than 2 years out of 5 or something similar.

A league can tolerate one team being a joke each season.

Edited 1 hour ago by gehringer_2