"The NBA presented its top front office minds with a '3-2-1' lottery ball approach, allocating the most lottery balls, three, to teams with the fourth-through-10th-worst records. Two lottery balls would be gifted to the three teams with the absolute worst records in the league and the play-in teams that fail to advance to the playoffs proper."
"Clubs would be prohibited from earning the No. 1 overall selection in back-to-back seasons, or from nabbing three straight picks in the top five. The adjusted rules would prevent teams from protecting draft picks in the Nos. 12-15 spots for... some reason."
"In modern sports, frequently changing rules and making them as convoluted and tough to follow as possible isn't exactly fan-friendly. Again, this is all being done, in theory, to address a problem that isn't even much of a problem."
The NBA is exploring changes to its lottery system to combat tanking, including expanding the lottery from 14 to 18 teams and altering the odds. A new '3-2-1' lottery ball system would allocate more balls to teams with mid-tier records while limiting the worst teams' chances. Additionally, teams would be restricted from consecutive top picks. Critics argue that these convoluted changes may not effectively address the issue of tanking, suggesting that a simpler solution would be to shorten the regular season to reduce incentives for losing.
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