One last sleazy lottery? Plus, a surprise record-breaker
The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox.Good morning to all, especially our moms in Pittsburgh and Utah. Inside: ⬇️ The NBA’s shadiest tanker 🥎 A new home run queen 🌀 Canes sweep again NBA: The last lottery of its kindThe NBA Draft Lottery is at 3 p.m. ET on ABC. There will never be another like it. This season’s tanking was so egregious, and fan and media complaints about it were so loud, that the NBA is doing something about it. That the league will make some sort of reform to the lottery for 2027 appears certain. What that will be is less obvious, but the league seems to be moving toward a “3-2-1” system that awards varying numbers of lottery balls to teams that lose Play-In games (one ball), finish ninth or 10th in their conference (two), finish with the fourth- to 10th-worst record (three!) or finish bottom-three (just two, as an anti-tank incentive).Advertisementالمصدر: The Athletic | Source: The Athletic
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