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Report: NBA finalizing '3-2-1' draft lottery reform proposalThe NBA has shared details of its anti-tanking, "3-2-1 lottery" draft reform plan with team general managers, according to a report from ESPN.,There could be minor tweaks to the proposal ahead of it being voted on by the league's owners on May 28, but the larger points of the plan have a majority of...

What Will Zion Williamson Put Up His Rookie Year?Barring some unlikely outcomes—an inspiring protest that gets him out of New Orleans, a defiant but ultimately depressing return to the accursed NCAA—Zion Williamson will suit up for the Pelicans this fall. What will he do there?...

The Knicks' Woes Have Taken Unexpected FormsShockingly, it wasn’t actually worth it in the end. ...

If The Pelicans Don't Deserve Zion Williamson, Every Other Team Deserves Him Less

When the New Orleans Pelicans landed the right to seize the beginning of Zion Williamson’s basketball career, the reaction was swift, predictable and consistent: “What did those people do to deserve such a prize?”...

Maybe, Just Maybe, The Knicks Might Have A Functional Defense

The Knicks did not luck out, which is basically an evergreen sentence. Their lottery pick did not leap into the top three, which had only a six percent chance of occurring last night. It instead landed at nine, as expected. I feel a little good about this. ...

Here's How The NBA Draft Lottery Went Down

The team with the worst record in the NBA this season, the Phoenix Suns, won the draft lottery tonight, and with it the choice of either Arizona’s Deandre Ayton or Real Madrid’s Luka Dončić. Whoever of those two the Suns don’t pick will likely go to the Sacramento Kings, who defied the odds and took...

Report: NBA Approves Lottery Reform That Probably Won't Prevent Tanking

The lottery reform proposal that was submitted to the NBA board of governors earlier this month has reportedly been approved. The new system, designed to curtail tanking, is unlikely to curtail tanking....

Report: NBA Board Of Governors To Vote On Lottery Reform

ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski is reporting that a new NBA draft lottery system is one step closer to becoming a reality. According to Woj, the league’s competition committee has recommended a reform proposal that was created by the NBA, and the league’s board of governors will now vote on the proposal o...