You'd think tanking for picks could be addressed with a lottery for draft order at least in the first round.
Maybe you don't need a floor for team salary, but there ought to be some sort of commitment for teams receiving extra payments for small markets to actually use that towards keeping or acquiring players.
Maybe a bonus to players in their cheapest years based on the number of games started would help younger regulars who would be the ones most underpaid. That, and maybe just getting rid of Super 2 and giving all players arb after 2 years would diminish the gaming.
the rest of the article implies the players are aware they aren't getting most of what they want. I assume the framework of a deal will simply bump up the minimum salary, maybe to $750k or so, maybe with increases before arbitration to something like $1 m, and some sort of small reduction in the time needed for super-2 status. That would address a lot of the concerns about the younger players. I don't think the league is going to budge on a salary floor.
