NBA’s new tanking rules just depreciated the Nets’ stock of Knick picks<\/p>\n
Bridges laid out a blueprint in his first year in Manhattan, following up the regular season with an infamously cold-blooded pair of games against the Boston Celtics. The two-way wing might not look like Brandon Roy or Gary Payton each night, but he’d play every single game and deliver his best when the stakes are high.<\/p>\n
The trade-off, literally, for the Nets was the large amount of draft capital they received in return for Bridges<\/a>. But with the NBA’s new tanking reform, which flattens odds amongst losing teams and generally disincentivizes losing as a strategy, it’s hard to say those picks still have the same value. <\/p>\n There are plenty of new wrinkles in the CBA as a result of these anti-tanking regulations. Aside from the amount of teams receiving some allotment of ping-pong balls increasing by two, it’s also less feasible of a strategy to tank for several seasons in a row. <\/p>\n Teams can no longer win the #1 overall pick in back to back seasons, nor can they have a pick land in the top five of three consecutive drafts. These limits even apply to picks acquired from other teams, such as the Nets’ picks from the Knicks. <\/p>\n
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