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[mvossman]

the current system for distributing the odds might be about as good as it's going to get compared to every prior system I've seen or any of the proposed ideas.  In an exceptionally promising projected draft year like this one, tanking is unavoidable.  Its almost hysterically revealing that Adam Silver says openly that his concern is about how overtly the tanking is executed.  Covertly then, not a problem.  Good stuff from the champion of legalized pro sports gambling. 

Changing the lottery rules again?  Window dressing while gambling is the elephant in the integrity room.  The only thing any NBA draft system can do is change how many tanking teams you have, how overt the tanking might become and how soon the tanking begins.

I don't think this is true.  You could simply make the entire first round a lottery with flattened odds.  It won't reward crappy organizations as much as it used to, but now that the aprons are so punishing (making it much closer to a true salary cap) the smaller franchises don't need as much help.  Very little reason to tank in that scenario.

On a separate note, I think the play-in is stupid.  Half the league was already making the playoffs.