NBA lottery reform: How to fix tanking? Don’t give the bottom three teams the best odds
The NBA has been trying to solve tanking for about as long as I’ve been alive. Smoothed odds. Weighted odds. The ping-pong machine. Flattened top-four picks. Stern threats about “competitive integrity.” Even fines. None of it has worked, because none of it has addressed the actual disease, which is that the structure of the lottery […]