{"id":46298,"date":"2026-04-10T03:04:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T03:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=46298"},"modified":"2026-04-10T03:04:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T03:04:46","slug":"nbas-looming-lottery-changes-will-likely-have-incidental-repercussions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=46298","title":{"rendered":"NBA&#8217;s looming lottery changes will likely have incidental repercussions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F04%2Fnewspress-collage-gjc74s8xp-1775784337841.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall%261775769951\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<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<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\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<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/09\/sports\/nbas-looming-lottery-changes-will-likely-have-incidental-repercussions\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"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. Different leadership has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}