Adam Silver: Losing should be uncomfortable
Shams Charania: I have a quote from Adam Silver according to my sources on a recent league call that I was told. He said, "We should have a system where you should hate to lose. It shouldn't be a badge of honor to lose.
Losing should be uncomfortable. " And that's what is set up now. The first relegation of the bottom teams in the NBA, the first of its kind in American pro sports.
And when I look at this model that the NBA has come up with, if Adam Silver could relegate teams to the G-League, he probably would. You look at the soccer model, but you he's not going to do that. But what you're going to see now under a new proposal that the NBA is zeroing in on, it's a 16 team lottery reform to curb tanking.
May 28th, owners have to vote on this. But this is now something the NBA is zeroing in on. Flattened odds, 16 teams all being part of a a lottery drawing and penalizing the bottom three teams.
Those bottom three teams. And whoever finishes with the three worst records in the NBA, right, has have the least amount of lottery balls for the number one overall pick. YouTube This article originally appeared on Hoops Hype: Adam Silver: Losing should be uncomfortable