Report: Owners could vote soon on NBA lottery reform
The NBA's draft lottery, which is heavily weighted in favor of the league's worst teams, has been a point of contention for a while.
The lottery gives the league's worst team a 25 percent chance to win the lottery, gives the best non-playoff team just a 0.5 percent chance to land the top pick, and only determines the top three picks. The next 11 are then determined by the reverse order of the standings.
With the 76ers now entering the second season of a multi-year tank and an anonymous general manager admitting to tanking early last season, talk of lottery reform has never been louder.
Earlier this summer, Grantland's Zach Lowe reported that the NBA was pushing for a new lottery system that's more evenly weighted for the 14 non-playoff teams.
Now Lowe says a new system is gaining steam and could be voted on sooner rather than later.
...There appears to be broad support among the league’s 30 teams for the NBA’s proposal, per several sources. Ownership groups could vote on it as early as this season, and a powerful distaste for Philly’s multiyear tanking adventure is driving the reform movement.
The proposed system Lowe previously reported on would see at least the worst four teams share the best lottery odds (around 11 percent), the best non-playoff team get a 2 percent chance at the top pick, and the top six picks determined by the lottery.
ESPN had previously reported that the 76ers opposed the implementation of lottery reform (read the story stack below).