NBA Draft lottery proposals don't address the underlying reason behind tanking

The NBA’s (occasionally) admirable attempts to bring the hammer to the scourge of tanking continue to ignore the tenacity and recalcitrance of nails.The league is committed to trying to reduce the most egregious forms of tanking — the multi-year versions — in its attempts to get more of its teams to participate fully in actually trying to win games during the regular season. But its attempts to find perfection in potential solutions, to try and account for every contingency, continue to ignore the most salient problem it faces: There aren’t enough superstars to go around. And many of the league’s teams can’t get one, much less two.Advertisement