On Thursday, the NBA’s proposed draft lottery overhaul became official.
The league’s Board of Governors voted to pass the “3-2-1” proposal today that commissioner Adam Silver has been touting as the answer to tanking over the last several months. The basic idea is to flip the current lottery structure on its head and give lesser No. 1 pick odds to the bottom-three teams in the NBA; right now the three worst teams have a much higher chance of winning the lottery than anybody else. This will purportedly prevent any teams from losing on purpose by taking away the incentive to finish the season with the worst record possible.
