In 2014, during the Sam Hinkie era tank-fest in Philadelphia, the league was embarrassed. The 76ers were embarrassingly bad, and it looked like they were losing on purpose. They won less than 20 games three years in a row, and the league tried to change the draft lottery system as a result.
The league failed.
Now, three years and many tanks later, the league decided to tweak their lottery reform idea. This time, it passed almost unanimously.
The idea of this new draft lottery proposal is that being the worst team isn’t much more valuable in getting a high draft pick than being a team with one of the worst five records.