NBA's 18-Team Lottery Explained: Will It Actually Stop Tanking?

The NBA's 18-team lottery proposal is worth breaking down carefully.⁣ ⁣ The key piece: the bottom 10 teams all get equal odds. That changes the incentive structure significantly. Right now there's a real reward for being the worst team in the league. Under this model, you're competing to be mediocre rather than competing to lose, which is probably the point.⁣ ⁣ Also notable: seeds 7 and 8 would now be lottery-eligibl...