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The NBA has narrowed down their list of anti-tanking measures to three options.
I think that, unfortunately, this list is too short, and it leaves too many good ideas off the table. Below are some of the ideas that didn’t make the cut…
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The Wheel
Proposed by Mike Zarren, the wheel assigns draft picks without regard to record. Instead, the rank order of the picks changes from year to year.
Pros: There’s no point in tanking anymore.
Cons: It will take 32 years to figure out if it works.
The Drop-Dead Date
The lottery seeding is fixed at a certain arbitrary point in time—the All-Star break is often suggested—after this point, further losses don’t improve your odds of getting a top pick.
Pros: It doesn’t matter if you lose games after the drop-dead date.
Cons: It doesn’t matter if you win games after the drop-dead date either.
The Lottery Tournament
Teams will compete to get the most favorable odds in the lottery in a tournament—or the draft order will be fixed by the results of the tournament.
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Pros: There’s more basketball to watch and, importantly for the league these days, more basketball to bet on. After expansion, there will be as many teams in the lottery tournament as in the postseason, and this way even players on bad teams can get the chance to play an extended schedule with even more chances to get hurt. Oh wait.
Cons: Does anyone want to see Sacramento hang a banner when they win the lottery tournament?
The Really Complicated Rule System
Under this system, the two-year record of a team is taken into consideration, and a floor will be set, such that no team that wins less than 25 games gets credit for a greater number of losses, and this will be used to determine the odds for a drawing that will assign the first four spots in the draft. The 22 teams in the league with the worst cumulative two-year records will be entered in the drawing.
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Pros: It’s complicated!
Cons: The league is actually considering this one.
The Pig in a Poke
The league doesn’t reveal the lottery selection method until the end of the season. Odds could be weighted to favor really bad teams,…
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Publish date : 2026-04-03 09:50:00
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