LABron James Discussion: The Final Year?

You can absorb a contract (Dort?) and still pay LeBron close to 30 million.Or you can sign two FA (Timelord and another smaller contract) and still pay LeBron close to 30mil. You would still have picks and players to trade for more upgrades.I don’t see a huge problem here

 

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Yeah and like it's not only the 1st pick that gives you a superstar. I'd go on a limb without looking at it and say most all-stars weren't the 1st pick. You should still be able to get better with any top 10 lottery pick, especially if you get multiple in straight years

Basically the draft shouldn't save a franchise. You need to improve from all avenues at your disposal, make a combination of good decisions that brings growth to your club. Get good scouts, build good programmes, invest in player development. Not giving up on competitive basketball for multiple years and large chunk of seasons until you luck out on a top pick

You have guys like Maxey or Jalen Johnson for example that developed into leading superstars without being top picks, if not wrong. So if the worst case scenario of this new model is a bad team being unlucky and not getting top 5 picks, it's still not an excuse to not become better

For example, look at the Nets. They currently have no young hot prospects despite being bad for multiple years. With the current model the smartest thing to do is to have the worst possible roster, to be point of playing me or you if needed be for multiple seasons until they get 1 or 2 young guys they can build around. That can't be. We can't have a team that has absolutely no incentive to win a basketball game for multiple seasons. They literally start the season knowing that losing 82 games is literally better than winning 1, 5 or 30. That can't be. This new model addresses that.
So with this new model, although still having a bad team they would be incentivized to maybe overpay someone in FA to get better. Play their best guys all year to try leaving the bottom 3. Develop the guys they have so they get out of this position and become a better team