NBA Draft Lottery reform is wonderful and long overdue for the league

There’s a scene from an NBA team’s front-office meeting that I was once told about. It happened more than a decade ago, but the outlines will be familiar to many people in the business, and it is still relevant to a present-day discussion.In this meeting, a team’s GM was sketching a particularly convoluted get-rich-quick transaction scheme that seemed both incredibly risky and unlikely to be particularly fruitful (both turned out to be true), when a lower-ranking staffer asked a simple question: “What if we just try to add good players and build the team?”Advertisement