8. "I don't know if there is a way to really fix it" In response to In response to 0
I mean, the lottery should be designed to give the team with the worst records in the league the best chance to improve. Drastically improving the chances of the other teams to stop potential tanking is like killing an ant with a sledgehammer. There's no way to build fairly into the system a way to differentiate teams that are tanking and teams that just suck. Didn't work after 1984, can't think of a reasonable way that it will work now.