{"id":490051,"date":"2026-03-27T15:16:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=490051"},"modified":"2026-03-27T15:16:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:16:04","slug":"nba-unveils-three-anti-tanking-proposals-lottery-changes-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-unveils-three-anti-tanking-proposals-lottery-changes-on-the-horizon\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA unveils three anti-tanking proposals: lottery changes on the horizon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1832\" data-end=\"2135\">The <strong data-start=\"1836\" data-end=\"1843\">NBA<\/strong> has presented the <strong data-start=\"1862\" data-end=\"1884\">Board of Governors<\/strong> with three structured anti-tanking proposals, all of which would significantly reshape the current draft lottery system. According to ESPN, the concepts are now expected to be refined before a formal vote in May.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2137\" data-end=\"2533\">All three options share one key feature: expanding the lottery pool to include teams that currently are not part of it, including play-in teams and even some first-round playoff exits. The concepts include an 18-team flattened-odds lottery, a 22-team two-year-record model, and a \u201cfive-by-five\u201d system that protects the five worst teams from falling too far.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2535\" data-end=\"2793\">Adam Silver has made clear that the league intends to act and that the incentive structure will change. The decision to schedule a special meeting in May shows how urgent the NBA considers the issue ahead of next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The league presented three major concepts to the Board of Governors in a push to reduce incentives for losing, with a formal vote expected in May<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":490046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-490051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/Silver.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490051"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=490051"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=490051"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=490051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}