QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Jun 8, 2016 -> 09:25 PM)
How do you punish a team? Are they supposed to spend a certain amount of money? What if a team has a strategy of trying to play their own young home grown talent thinning they can win with it?
You give them a window of a few years like I mentioned above. Then you start fining and moving them out of their presumed top draft position. That's really the problem with the lottery. The 76ers still are able to get good picks.
Let's not act like these teams plans are secretive either. GMs have been very open about these type of strategies because they want to prepare everyone else for the long term sucking.