Kyrie is right: At worst, the NBA draft is a dark concept, at best, it's a flawed way to introduce young players into the league.

Get rid of it.
Just make it a free agency period where teams can pitch players on why they should sign up.

It'll probably curb tanking and create a more balanced league, if we care about parity, which I don't think we do
No salary cap, no lottery and no draft
If they get rid of tampering rules, which they should anyway, it'd be so fun to have teams actively courting Cade Cunningham RN.

"Who has the unlimited playing time at the 1 and gabagool on a roll like this? OH!"
Signing day would be an NBA Festivus

"We can finally say $100M contract again."
How do you incentivize a team to not lose on purpose?

Give them a reason to be good!
A proposal: Cap how much the Dolans and Busseses can make

Cap the front office/governorship $$$ and raise the player max
The billionaire tier glitch in the NBA isn't star players... it's the guys literally making billions of dollars when they flip these teams.
Sterling sold the Clips to Ballmer for $2B

Prokhorov sold 51% of the Nets/Barclays/$320M in debt to Joe Tsai for $3.5B. The team was 288-434 in the MP era

Steph Curry's career earnings is $209M

Forbes values the Warriors at $4.3B
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