Report: NBA GMs, owners leaning toward approving 18-team lottery with flattened odds
The 10 teams that miss the playoffs would each have an 8% chance of getting the No. 1 seed
NBA Draft lottery reform is coming, Adam Silver wants it and what the NBA Commissioner wants, he gets. The only question is what it will look like. There is a growing momentum behind a formula that would expand the lottery to 18 teams and flatten the odds, reports Sam Amick at The Athletic .
Yet according to league and team sources, a heavy front-runner has emerged among the three proposed solutions... 18 teams would be part of the draft lottery (rather than the current 14) and the bottom 10 teams would all have an 8% chance of landing the No. 1 pick.
The remaining odds ā 20 percent in all ā would be divided among the remaining eight teams. There's a lot to unpack, and a lot of questions about this: ā¢ Nothing can become official until the Board of Governors meets and votes on it next month. Meaning nothing is set in stone.
ā¢ Expanding to 18 teams means that not only are the four teams that lose in the play-in going to be in the lottery, but so are the four teams with the worst record that make the playoffs but lose in the first round. If it were in place this season, teams such as Toronto and maybe Phoenix would be in the lottery. ā¢ While the odds are small, wait for the outcry the first year one of the playoff teams wins the lottery and gets the No.