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Sanjuro said:
This Cavs team without a number one option is highly questionable. If IT isn't back to where he was a year ago, I'm not sure what they can do.

It's not rocket science.
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you say this like the Cavs had #1 options back in the mid-2000s. Love alone is better than anyone on those teams.
 
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Tall4Life

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Sanjuro said:
This Cavs team without a number one option is highly questionable. If IT isn't back to where he was a year ago, I'm not sure what they can do.

It's not rocket science.
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LeBron now is far better than what he was in his old Cavs run. Kevin Love is better than any other player on those old Cavs team besides LeBron as well.
 
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Sanjuro

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I'm not talking Cavs v Cavs pound for pound. I'm talking a out a team giving LeBron the ability to make the finals.

Without a number one, this year's Cavs are not there.
 
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Tall4Life

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BlackGhost said:
What in the hell.... ... .
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oh no bg
 
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jbug617

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The Tank might be dead.
The National Basketball Association is aggressively pursuing draft lottery reform that could be voted into legislation before the start of the 2017-'18 season, league sources told ESPN.

Commissioner Adam Silver is a strong advocate to de-incentivize tanking by implementing lower odds on the NBA's worst teams to gain the top picks in the draft, league sources said.

The proposed measures would also increase the chances of better teams making a jump up into the draft lottery. The NBA's 14 non-playoff team compromise the league's annual draft lottery system.

If passed, the lottery reform would be phased into use over time, and there's no indication that the 2018 NBA Draft would fall under new legislation, league sources said.

The NBA's Competition Committee, comprised of several general managers and coaches, is expected to vote at a meeting next week on sending a formal recommendation to the Board of Governors for final passage, league sources said.

The Competition Committee is given significant latitude to challenge and amend the league office's proposals, and thus, could recommend none, part, or all of a proposal for the league owners to vote upon at its late September Board of Governors meeting in New York.
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http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/20621318/reform-nba-draft-lottery-voted-17-18-season
 
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Sanjuro

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Crowder's mom died five minutes he told her they were going to Cleveland.

http://www.weei.com/blogs/john-toma...ments-after-he-told-her-about-trade-cavaliers

The blockbuster that brought Kyrie Irving to Boston focused understandably on the inclusion of All-Star guard Isaiah Thomas, who had led the Celtics to the conference finals just weeks after the death of his sister.

But it turns out the deal was no less emotional for forward Jae Crowder, who experienced a devastating loss of his own the day the deal went down.

Crowder was at the bedside of his cancer-stricken mother, Helen, when the news broke. He informed her of the trade just minutes before she died at age 51.

"There was a lot going on that day, obviously," Crowder told reporters in Cleveland during his introductory press conference. "The good thing about the whole ordeal was I was able to whisper it to my mom before she passed. I was with her. I just told her, 'We're going to Cleveland.' Five minutes later, she passed. That day was tough, but it was a good day for myself, for my basketball career, to move on to an organization like this, like the Cleveland Cavaliers, to put myself in a position to play for it all. I couldn't ask myself for nothing else. I was thankful for Boston, for everything they've done for me, and for trading me to a team like this. I was thankful for the opportunity. But that day was pretty wild."

Crowder's emotions had been all over the place since the end of the season, when the Celtics signed free agent forward Gordon Hayward and then drafted forward Jayson Tatum out of Duke.

"I was a little concerned," he said. "We had a lot of wing players stacked up. It was a little concerning. I made it clear to the organization that I was concerned about it and just wanted more direction. I think they gave it to me with the trade. They showed me what they wanted to do. I respected it."

Crowder, 27, gives the Cavaliers a much-needed three-and-D specialist who can provide depth to a frontcourt that sorely lacked it last season.
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Ninja Scooter

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The most obvious thing would be to simply give every non-playoff team even odds for the lottery. I would like to see them go further and penalize teams that are in the lottery year after year, by lowering their odds little by little no matter how shitty they are, but the owners would never go for that.
 
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kIdMuScLe

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I would rather watch a win or go home tournament for the non playoffs team with the winner getting the #1 pick plus the NBA finals champion getting high odds for a top 5 pick
 
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Randolph Freelander

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I think bad teams should receive help in the draft so they can get better, but I have proposed a similar idea to Ninja's in the past, that lottery odds get progressively worse the longer you are in them. You can be bad and get a good pick, you can tank, even. You just can't do it year after year.
 
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True Savior

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They should have a playoff after the 9th seed. But instead of basketball, teams would play handball. The winner would have the best odds at the draft and so forth.
 
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Ninja Scooter

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kIdMuScLe said:
I would rather watch a win or go home tournament for the non playoffs team with the winner getting the #1 pick plus the NBA finals champion getting high odds for a top 5 pick
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Why in the world would any of the players want to be involved in that?


Hottest GM should get the most ping pong balls.
 
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LyleLanley

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kIdMuScLe said:
I would rather watch a win or go home tournament for the non playoffs team with the winner getting the #1 pick plus the NBA finals champion getting high odds for a top 5 pick
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So the truly bad teams never get a good lottery pick and players have to play for the right to lose their job to a rookie in the following year?
 
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kIdMuScLe

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LyleLanley said:
So the truly bad teams never get a good lottery pick and players have to play for the right to lose their job to a rookie in the following year?
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I mean isn't almost the same thing as tanking? You're playing to make your team suck and still lose your job to a rookie next year.

Well maybe give both NBA finals team with a chance to be in the Top 10 or 5 pick... they gotta get some sort of incentive besides just winning the trophy. But in reality it is a hot mess on how to sort out this tanking problem
 
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LyleLanley

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kIdMuScLe said:
I mean isn't almost the same thing as tanking? You're playing to make your team suck and still lose your job to a rookie next year.

Well maybe give both NBA finals team with a chance to be in the Top 10 or 5 pick... they gotta get some sort of incentive besides just winning the trophy. But in reality it is a hot mess on how to sort out this tanking problem
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Management are the ones that tank, players don't.
 
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