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The NBA can change the incentives. It can change the lottery. It can make losing on purpose a less attractive business plan. It cannot make a bad basketball team good just by asking it to try. That’s the early takeaway from Stephen Noh’s look at the league’s anti-tanking reforms for Sporting News. The expectation was […] The post NBA changed the lottery rules. Some teams still stink appeared first on Hoops Wire.
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