Radical NBA draft lottery reform is on the table: What might change?

The NBA teams with the worst records would no longer have the best chances of getting the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft as part of a potential, dramatic draft lottery reform, longtime NBA writer Mark Stein and others have reported . In an apparent effort to discourage tanking, the teams with the fourth-worst through 10th-worst records each would have the best chances at the No.

1 pick – 8. 1% – according to Stein. Those teams would get three lottery balls each, per ESPN .

By contrast, the NBA teams with the three worst records each would have a 5. 4% chance at the top pick, according to Stein, who reported teams with the 11th-worst through 14th-worst records also would have a 5. 4% chance at the top pick.

Those teams would get two lottery balls. This year the bottom three teams – the Washington Wizards , Indiana Pacers and Brooklyn Nets – each will have a 14% chance at the No. 1 pick, and the odds drop among lottery teams with better records.