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[QUOTE="Dogdeacon, post: 3157846, member: 1026"]
Totally disagree. I don't think you understand how the odds absolutely motivated tanking and made that strategy superior. Having the worst record gave you the best odds to improve. Now it quite clearly does not.

Yes there are always unintended consequences and you are right about the middle, borderline playoff teams having a possible incentive to miss the playoffs. But even that jockeying is a heck of a lot more interesting than outright losing. Depending on the team you may be better off missing the playoffs versus being #8 vs #1 fodder. But if you are an up and coming team like the quickly rebuilt Clippers the playoff experience is/was worthwhile. The Kings would have killed for that.  AND there was a dogfight for the last playoff spot in the EAST, so you are diagnosing a problem that didn't exist in practice. 
The problem of losing games the last part of a too long season when your fate is known/sealed anyway is much less of a problem than choosing years of purposeful non-competitiveness that destroys the entertainment/competitiveness of the league. That was a real occurrence, they needed to dis-incentivize that and they did.
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