Every year, college and international basketball players enter the NBA through the draft. Teams take it in turns picking players, to whom they then have the rights to sign. The lottery is the NBA’s method of deciding the order that teams pick in the draft. How many teams are in the NB...
Still, teams in the 9/10 seed have a chance and teams push to get those spots. It’s all worked to create the drama Silver wanted, and that (plus changes to the NBA Draft Lottery odds) changed the narrative around tanking. Has any team reached the NBA Finals out of the...