I hate the idea of banning a team from having a top four pick the year after making the conference finals. That feels like an overreaction with unintended consequences.
What if you have another “LeBron leaves the Cavs” situation, which sets off a full rebuild?
I also don’t love freezing odds at the trade deadline.
I like some of these ideas, but we *have* to recognize that tanking is the symptom, not the problem. The actual problem: bad teams don't have that many ways to get better. No team *prefers* to just lose for months in front of empty stands. They're doing it because they have to.