Change is coming to the NBA lottery. There’s speculation as to what kind of change is coming, but we know the NBA filed an official proposal to reform the lottery.
According to a Grantland report, the changes will adjust the odds for winning a lottery selection as well as increasing the number of lottery selections from the top three to the top six.
Credit commissioner Adam Silver for being open-minded about making changes. He wants advertising on game uniforms. He even floated the idea of a midseason tournament.
Adjusting the lottery odds is a step in the right direction. But when compared to the two ideas above, it’s an incremental change, at best. If Silver really wants to shake up the lottery, he could apply the tournament idea to the lottery.
Instead of rewarding teams for tanking to improve their odds for a top-three selection, teams would have to earn it. Many of the ills that infect franchises gunning for better lottery odds (tanking and one-sided trades) won’t be cured, but it creates new perspectives to remedy an old problem.
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