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Old 10-22-2014, 04:34 PM   #592
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NBA failed to pass anti-tanking rules with only 17 teams (need 23 minimum) supporting the new rules.

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The reform would have given the league's four worst teams identical odds (around 11 percent) of winning the top pick, with the fifth team having about a 10 percent chance and the rest of the teams with declining odds. Under the current system, the team with the worst record has a 25 percent chance at the No. 1 pick, and the second-worst team has a 19.9 percent chance, with each subsequent team's odds declining slightly ...

Since the league's weighted lottery system was adopted for the 1985 draft, only four teams with the worst or tied-for-worst record have earned the top overall pick.
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