{"id":707114,"date":"2026-04-10T04:12:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/707114\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T04:12:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:12:24","slug":"nbas-looming-lottery-changes-will-likely-have-incidental-repercussions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/707114\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA&#8217;s looming lottery changes will likely have incidental repercussions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA\u2019s fight against tanking has been going on for decades, long before the first lottery that delivered Patrick Ewing to New York.<\/p>\n<p>Different leadership has tried different tactics. From the lottery to the ping-pong balls, trying to fend off tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy theorists. They\u2019ve weighted the odds and flattened the odds.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve fined infractions and now threatened more rules changes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to fix it,\u201d NBA commissioner Adam Silver vowed recently. \u201cFull stop.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA\u2019s fight against tanking has been going on for decades, long before the first lottery that delivered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3767],"tags":[7,670,247,3803,6,671,66,198,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-707114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn-nets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-nets","11":"tag-brooklynnets","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nets","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-columnists","16":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116378464640488927","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}