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If the NBA issued a league-wide redraft, would you build a win-now team, or build for the future? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Shepard_Wrex14@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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Buddy and I were talking about this, specifically LeBron. No doubt he's a top-30 player. But given his age, we were debating whether or not he'd be a first-round pick in a league-wide redraft. Which then led to a wider conversation about how you would approach team building if all NBA players were made available.

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[–] DoubleGreat44@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The reason "win now" can work is because 1/2 the teams are out of contention before the season starts.

If all 30 teams draft from scratch right now, the 30 teams would be much more balanced -- making "win now" very difficult.

It would be smarter to build for the future.

However, if everyone thought that, the meta would be to draft for win now I suppose. But I expect most owners would be trying for big names now, so I'd still go future.

[–] Frewsa@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah it’s an interesting question because the optimal strategy depends on what the other GMs perceive the optimal strategy to be. Which then begs the question: would it be better to pick later (say 10th) so that you can see which way the first 9 picks, vs picking first and having less information to go off of?