The NBA officially has a new draft lottery system. On Thursday, the league’s owners approved the “3-2-1” system that will begin with the 2027 draft. Owners voted 29–1 in favor of the new approach, ...

I have been under the impression for most of my life that the NBA draft exists to inject new talent into the NBA and that the inverse record system by which the draft has operated was meant to promote ...

The NBA Board of Governors voted decisively 29-1 to approve the new anti-tanking lottery system called “the 3-2-1 Lottery.” Starting in the 2027 draft, the lottery will expand from 14 to 16 teams and ...

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NBA general managers met Tuesday to discuss potential changes to the draft lottery in an attempt to disincentivize teams from intentionally losing to improve their lottery odds. Sarah Stier / Getty ...

On Thursday, the NBA officially passed lottery reform with a vote from the league's board of governors. The odds have now been flattened into what the league is calling a "3-2-1" system in which 37 ...

The NBA voted to approve a new draft lottery system designed to eliminate incentives for teams to tank during the regular season, the league announced on Thursday, May 28. The “3-2-1 Lottery” approved ...

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver believes that tanking is a scourge and the biggest current threat to the league. Now he has his radical solution to “fix” this problem. By a 29-1 vote, the NBA Board of ...