AROUND the NBA:

[loki]

@ShamsCharania
Multiple sources with knowledge of Thursday's GM meeting as well as a late January Competition Committee meeting told ESPN that the following concepts have been discussed to curb tanking:

•First-round picks can be protected only top-4 or top-14+
•Lottery odds freeze at the trade deadline or a later date
•No longer allowing a team to pick top 4 in consecutive years and/or after consecutive bottom-3 finishes
•Teams can’t pick top-4 the year after making conference finals
•Lottery odds allocated based on two-year records
•Lottery extended to include all play-in teams
•Flatten odds for all lottery teams

No thank you to #2, #6, and #7. I think the rest are enough to make a huge difference. Once that's done it would be counterproductive to make it harder for bad teams to get high picks. That only results in them trying again the next year.