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Silver: Owners Concerned About Lottery Reform

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An effort to reform the NBA’s draft lottery process failed to get enough votes to pass at the league’s board of governors meeting Wednesday.

While the final vote was 17-13 in favor of the reform, that was short of the required 23 votes needed to push the change through.

“I think, in essence, the owners were concerned about unintended consequences,” NBA commissioner Adam Silver said. “I think we all recognize we need to find the right balance between creating the appropriate incentives on one hand for teams to, of course, win, and on the other hand allowing for appropriate rebuilding and the draft to work as it should in which the worst performing teams get the highest picks in the draft.”

via ESPN

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