Valenti Wants To Get Rid Of The NBA Draft Lottery And Replace It With THIS
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right. |
| 0:01.0 | So one note before we give back to the people and certainly will really turn our attention to the Pistons at five. |
| 0:07.2 | But you know, you brought up this whole Utah, the bonds the thing and the lottery and Indiana. |
| 0:12.8 | Here's what I want to sell you. |
| 0:14.4 | For all the conversation about the NBA and the problems and the tanking and the lottery, |
| 0:21.4 | here's the best idea I have. |
| 0:23.3 | I shared it with David. |
| 0:24.1 | We were talking this morning. |
| 0:26.3 | I said, look, here's what you could do. |
| 0:29.7 | There is no lottery. |
| 0:32.0 | There isn't even a draft anymore. |
| 0:35.1 | You just turn it into an open-air horror market. |
| 0:39.6 | It's free agency. |
| 0:42.3 | And before you laugh, hear what I'm, |
| 0:44.6 | I'm thinking something like in Holland. |
| 0:47.0 | Like you just put AJ DeBanzah into a window with red lights, |
| 0:50.9 | and you go, I'd like to buy this player for $100 million. |
| 0:55.2 | We've already lived through the Big Dog Robinson era. |
| 1:01.1 | Let me, |
| 1:01.7 | so what you're saying is not like that, |
| 1:05.8 | but almost like one of those fantasy leagues where you bid on players. |
| 1:09.2 | Yeah, |
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