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  "path": "/the-nbas-lottery-reform-proposal-will-change-but-not-eliminate-tanking",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-30T15:49:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://defector.com",
  "tags": [
    "NBA",
    "adam silver",
    "nba draft",
    "nba draft lottery",
    "tanking",
    "ESPN's Shams Charania reported",
    "the various proposals"
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  "textContent": "If you paid any attention to the NBA after the calendar flipped to 2026, you were inundated with feverish debates about how to solve the supposedly existential crisis facing the league: tanking. With a strong 2026 draft class awaiting them, the worst 10 teams in the league attempted to lose as many games as possible to maximize their draft lottery odds, resting their good players with fake injuries, pulling effective players from close games, and playing G League–level guys for 48 minutes.\n\nWhile tanking is not new, it had never been this widespread. The worst teams in the league losing games heralded a crisis of legitimacy that the NBA resolved to correct. On Tuesday, ESPN's Shams Charania reported on the league's strategy to fix tanking: Move it around so a different class of team has an incentive to tank.\n\nPer Charania, the NBA has held a bunch of meetings with the board of governors, the competition committee, and every general manager in the NBA over the past few months to talk through the various proposals it leaked last month. The owners will vote on it in a month, though both the substance of Charania's reporting (which is that \"key points of the framework have a majority of the support from teams\") and the fact of its publication through the league's willing mouthpiece make it seem likely that the new changes will be adopted ahead of next season. So what are they?",
  "title": "The NBA’s Lottery Reform Proposal Will Change, But Not Eliminate, Tanking"
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