NBA Unveils Controversial Anti-Tanking Plans in Private Owner Meeting—What It Means for the Future of the League
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“Incentives need to be fixed,” Silver said. “We will fix them. I’m looking forward to that.”
Concept 1: An 18-team lottery
The 10 teams that don’t make the playoffs and the eight teams that reach the play-in tournament all would be headed to the lottery. The bottom 10 teams would all have 8% odds of winning the lottery, and the odds would decrease from there.
This is the scenario where the 18th-worst team — a playoff team — could still win the lottery. It would have a 1% chance of winning.



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