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Mark Cuban proposes 20-team playoff system

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  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 30,622 Swaye's Wigwam

    EPL has it right. The sixers should have been in the d-league 3 years ago, and the stampede or whatever the hell other NBDL team called up to the big show.

    You want to rid the league of tanking, start relegating teams who finish in the bottom 4 for multiple years in a row.

    Disagree. Soccer is a different beast. There is no balance system in place, no salary cap, no draft. The best teams in soccer are pretty much the same, year after year. You get the best young players by giving them the most money. You can buy players from other teams for money.

    Most the D League teams are affiliates of NBA teams. Those teams don't play in NBA type arenas, etc. The other problem would be teams like the Sonics after Durant's rookie year would be relegated. I doubt the NBA or fans would like it if Wiggins wasn't playing in the NBA next year. The only way this system would work would be to create 4-6 more real franchises. Honestly, I think it would water down the product and wouldn't solve anything.
  • Fire_Marshall_Bill
    Fire_Marshall_Bill Member Posts: 26,345 Standard Supporter
    edited July 2015

    EPL has it right. The sixers should have been in the d-league 3 years ago, and the stampede or whatever the hell other NBDL team called up to the big show.

    You want to rid the league of tanking, start relegating teams who finish in the bottom 4 for multiple years in a row.

    Disagree. Soccer is a different beast. There is no balance system in place, no salary cap, no draft. The best teams in soccer are pretty much the same, year after year. You get the best young players by giving them the most money. You can buy players from other teams for money.

    Most the D League teams are affiliates of NBA teams. Those teams don't play in NBA type arenas, etc. The other problem would be teams like the Sonics after Durant's rookie year would be relegated. I doubt the NBA or fans would like it if Wiggins wasn't playing in the NBA next year. The only way this system would work would be to create 4-6 more real franchises. Honestly, I think it would water down the product and wouldn't solve anything.
    I don't know a lot about soccer economics besides the high transfer fees, but there's probably some way to make it work, not that it will ever happen. It's not like there are basketball leagues ready to poach Durant or Dwight Howard for $70,000,000.

    The bottom 10 teams are already just horrible to watch. I watched the butt Nuggets play the Kings once and it was painful. At least with an incentive not to go 17-65, the teams would try.
  • doogsinparadise
    doogsinparadise Member Posts: 9,320
    Time to relegate the M's.
  • PurpleJ
    PurpleJ Member Posts: 37,778
    They should just cancel the regular season already.
  • PurpleJ
    PurpleJ Member Posts: 37,778
    And relegation would never work with the NBA franchise system. Same reason MLSFS won't do it.