NBA's anti-tanking draft reform proposal is a disaster: Why Adam Silver's reform is destined to flop
The NBA has proposed a fix to the league's tanking issue that will cause far worse issues down the line than the one it is trying to address.
NBA's anti-tanking draft reform proposal is a disaster: Why Adam Silver's reform is destined to flop originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . What happens when you put 30 billionaires in a room to try and solve a problem of distributing resources between the haves and have-nots?
The NBA's draft lottery reform is trying to tackle this issue. And, unsurprisingly, they are close to passing a system that would drop the absolute hammer on the have-nots. According to ESPN's Shams Charania , the league and board of governors are strongly considering a new "3-2-1" lottery system that is designed to eliminate tanking and would take effect starting with the 2027 draft.
Rather than giving the best odds to the worst teams, the new system would distribute them more equally across the lottery while also punishing the bottom three teams in the league. The details of the new rules are long and convoluted. But X user JoestarJokic put the goals in the simplest possible language: "We believe some of the teams are pretending to be bad.
Therefore, we will find out which of the teams are actually bad and we will punish them. " MORE: NBA rules proposals to address 'tanking' are an overreaction to a one-year phenomenon What is the NBA's new draft reform policy? The proposed changes to the lottery are sweeping and dramatic.
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