NBA commissioner Adam Silver informed all general managers Thursday that the league plans to institute rule changes to combat tanking next season, sources told ESPN’s Shams Charania.
A competition committee meeting in late January and Thursday’s gathering of the NBA’s 30 GMs reportedly discussed several potential measures to solve tanking, Charania added.
The proposals reportedly included limiting first-round pick protections to top-four or top-14-plus protected; freezing the lottery odds at the trade deadline or a later date; flattening the odds for all lottery teams; adjusting the lottery odds based on a team’s two-year record; and extending the draft lottery to include all play-in teams rather than half of them.